en rapportadv.
/ɒn raˈpɔː/ In a state of rapport or close and harmonious relation; in sympathy, in harmony; usually of persons.
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1818 Lady Morgan in Passages from Autobiogr. (1859) 98 During his government as First Consul, I was frequently en rapport with him.
1846 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. Apr. in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) I. ii. 116 See what it is to have a person en rapport with you, that knows all your thoughts.
1851 M. Reid Rifle Rangers xxviii Sympathetic natures, who only needed to be placed en rapport to ‘like each other mightily’.
1884 Proc. Soc. Psychical Res. 1883–4 2 127 A mesmerised ‘subject’ who is sufficiently en rapport with his mesmeriser.
1933 P. G. Wodehouse Mulliner Nights v. 151 ‘I fear we were not exactly en rapport,’ sighed Sacheverell.
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