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Definition of Ecstasies
1. ecstasy [n] - See also: ecstasy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ecstasies
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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