wrapt
English
Etymology 1
From rapt, by overuse of ⟨wr⟩. Compare rack/wrack; see usage notes for rack.
Adjective
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
Verb
wrapt
- (obsolete) simple past and past participle of wrap