ecstasy
/ˈɛkstəsi/ noun B1- Intense pleasure.
- A state of emotion so intense that a person is carried beyond rational thought and self-control. · an ecstasy of remorse
- A trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.
- The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the methylenedioxyphenethylamine family, especially in a tablet form.
- A state in which sensibility, voluntary motion, and (largely) mental power are suspended, and the body is erect and inflexible.
Plural ecstasies
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For Anne the real excitement began with the dismissal of school and increased therefrom in crescendo until it reached to a crash of positive ecstasy in the concert itself.
she stopped in ecstasy to shut her eyes that she might the better fancy herself one of that heroic ring.
The moment of her release from him was ecstasy.
Wholly inattentive to her sister’s feelings, Lydia flew about the house in restless ecstasy, calling for everyone’s congratulations, and laughing and talking with more violence than ever; whilst the luckless Kitty continued in the parlour repining at her fate in terms as unreasonable as her accent was peevish.
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