raptness
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He quotes — as he will on several occasions always with the same, soft raptness — one of his favorite Shakespeare lines, from “Coriolanus”: “There is a world elsewhere.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2019
Ms. Sengbloh endows the description with a raptness that stops time, and an abject figure acquires majesty.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2017
The goal was raptness in a form she loves.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2015
I think there's something about Zahi's raptness that we could learn a lot from.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 16, 2012
He sank to raptness as of yore, And opening New Year's Day Wove it by rote as theretofore, And went on working evermore In his unweeting way.
From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
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