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Definition of Extasies
1. extasy [n] - See also: extasy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extasies
Literary usage of Extasies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. France by Morgan (Sydney), Thomas Charles Morgan (1817)
"... preserve among the rather restive young ladies of St. Cyr. whose wanderings
and extasies on divine ... ["they had contemplation, they had extasies; ..."
2. The Panoplist, and Missionary Magazine (1817)
"... who convene for the purposes of devotion, and that in these assemblages man;
fall down in extasies, who declare they are thus smitten with grace, ..."
3. Spiritual Magazine (1877)
"A CASE OF extasies. BY A SCOTCH MINISTER. MY former communication on the ...
I have had no personal experience of extasies and can only relate what I have ..."
4. Brazilian biographical annual by Joaquim Manuel de Macedo (1876)
"Very weak in health, she suffered grave infirmities from the twelfth year of her
age, experienced great torments, for which the extasies and prayers were ..."
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