ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ING2.] That enravishes; enrapturing, delightful.

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1681–6.  J. Scott, Chr. Life, V. 30. The most sublime and enravishing objects.

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1685.  H. More, Illustration, 376. Such enravishing news.

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a. 1714.  Abp. Sharp, Serm., Wks. (1829), I. 55. These [the pleasures of religion] are of so excellent a kind, so delicious, so enravishing that [etc.].

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  Hence Enravishingly adv.

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1687.  H. More, App. Antid. (1712), 221. The subtilty of the Matter [spiritual matter] will more … enravishingly move the Nerves, than any terrestrial Body can possibly.

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