wrapt
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From rapt, by overuse of ⟨wr⟩. Compare rack/wrack; see usage notes for rack.
Adjective
[edit]wrapt (comparative more wrapt, superlative most wrapt)
- Misspelling of rapt.
- 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:
- Lo! where the ſtripling, wrapt in wonder, roves / Beneath the precipice o'erhung with pine; […]
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]wrapt
- (obsolete) simple past and past participle of wrap
- 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 18:
- 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.