Definition of Ecstasies

1. Noun. (plural of ecstasy) ¹

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Definition of Ecstasies

1. ecstasy [n] - See also: ecstasy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ecstasies

ecquaintance
ecquaintances
ecranisation
ecranisations
ecraseur
ecraseurs
ecrasite
ecrevisse
ecromeximab
ecru
ecrus
ecstacies
ecstacy
ecstases
ecstasied
ecstasies (current term)
ecstasis
ecstasy
ecstatic
ecstatic state
ecstatica
ecstatical
ecstatically
ecstaticas
ecstatick
ecstatics
ecstrophe
ect.
ectacolia
ectad

Literary usage of Ecstasies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... as he declares himself, he frequently received in visions and ecstasies, were the reason alleged in his justification.П9) But his best apology may be ..."

2. Southern History of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1866)
"Grant's whole army on the threshold of ruin.—Grant's change of front and General Lee's new line.—The Northern newspapers go into ecstasies. ..."

3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... justly enough, of abstract themes, irregular rhymes and rhythms, bewildering passages and unearthly ecstasies, a passion too "thin-piercing. ..."

4. Studies of a Biographer by Sir Leslie Stephen (1902)
"I hoped to share Ruskin's ecstasies in a reverent worship of Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn. The influence of any cult, however, depends upon the character ..."

5. The Life of Saint Philip Neri, Apostle of Rome, and Founder of the by Pietro Giacomo Bacci (1902)
"It was His good pleasure to exalt him to a knowledge of the ineffable secrets of the Divine Greatness in wonderful ecstasies and raptures, which were of ..."

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