Meanings
wrapt1
comparative more wrapt · superlative most wrapt
- misspellingMisspelling of rapt.
Lo! where the ſtripling, wrapt in wonder, roves / Beneath the precipice o'erhung with pine; […]
1771, James Beattie, The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius. A Poem. Book the First, London: […] E[dward] & C[harles] Dilly, […]; Edinburgh: A[lexander] Kincaid and W[illiam] Creech; and J[ohn] Bell, […], →OCLC, stanza XXI, page 11
wrapt2
- obsoleteparticiplepastsimple past and past participle of wrap
1 more example
The piano-forté, at which Marianne, wrapt up in her own music and her own thoughts, had by this time forgotten that any body was in the room besides herself, was luckily so near them that Miss Dashwood now judged, she might safely, under the shelter of its noise, introduce the interesting subject, without any risk of being heard at the card table.
1811, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 18
Origin
From rapt, by overuse of ⟨wr⟩. Compare rack/wrack; see usage notes for rack.
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