wrapt

Speech parts

1. wrapt - Adjective

2. wrapt - Verb

Meaning

of Wrap

Examples

So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity. Tacitus

It was the winter wild While the Heav'n-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies. John Milton

The broad cloud-driving moon in the clear sky Lifts o'er the firs her shining shield, And in her tranquil light Sleep falls on forest and field. See! sleep hath fallen: the trees are asleep: The night is come. The land is wrapt in sleep. Robert Bridges

Night is a stealthy, evil raven, wrapt to the eyes in his black wings. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

This is the reason that the majority of children please. It is because they are wrapt up in the air and manner nature has given them, and are ignorant of any other. François de La Rochefoucauld

I shine afar, till men may not divine Whether it is the stars or the beloved They follow with wrapt spirit. George William Russell

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