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Definition of Extasy
1. n. & v. t. See Ecstasy,
Definition of Extasy
1. Noun. (archaic spelling of ecstasy) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Extasy
1. a state of rapture [n EXTASIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extasy
Literary usage of Extasy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America: During by John Davis (1909)
"It was then she gave loose to all the tumultuous extasy of love; hanging on his
arm, and weeping with an eloquence much more powerful than words. ..."
2. Medical Thermometry and Human Temperature by Edward Seguin (1876)
"extasy. Extase is a nervous disease of the most humiliating epochs, ...
Thermometry could have thrown some light on extasy, but the managers of ..."
3. Medical Thermometry and Human Temperature by Edward Séguin (1876)
"Thermometry could have thrown some light on extasy, but the managers of ...
Nevertheless, extasy is a nervous disease, which can be made scarce by educating ..."
4. A Sister's Story by Augustus Craven (1868)
"... how great must be the extasy of a nun, when she thinks that God, who is more
to her than husband, father, brother, mother, or child, is the Creator of ..."
5. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys ...: The Diary Deciphered by the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke, John A. Smith (1866)
"... extasy almost; and, having invited them to my house a day or two hence, we
broke up, Pierce having told mo how the King hath done my Lord Sandwich all ..."
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