ecstacy

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A form of ecstasy — Intense pleasure.

UncommonScrabble 14

Meanings

nounecstacy (countable and uncountable, plural ecstacies)

plural ecstacies

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete spelling of ecstasy.

    Oh Thou, whose Spirit through this universe / In which Thou dost involve thyself diffused, / Shall so perchance irradiate human clay / That men, suddenly dazzled, lose themselves / In ecstacy before a mortal shrine / Whose Light is but a Shade of the Divine; […]

    1879, Jami, “Sáláman and Absál. Preliminary Invocation.”, in [Edward FitzGerald], transl., Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia; and The Salámán and Ábsál of Jámí; […], 4th edition, London: Bernard Quaritch; […], →OCLC, page 51
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