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- noun Plural form of
ecstacy . - noun Obsolete spelling of
ecstasy .
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Examples
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Hitler “went into ecstacies about its beauty,” Speer recalled, “his eyes glittering with an excitement that struck me as uncanny.”
Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008
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Her ecstacies, and her furies, will always be necessary.
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My ecstacies were still further toned down when I woke the next morning with my neck, hands, and face stinging and swollen from the bites of innumerable mosquitoes.
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Barcelona, still travelling as a mendicant, always experiencing trances and ecstacies, and frequently visited by the Holy Virgin and Jesus Christ.
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All this somewhat damped my ecstacies, and contrasted unfavourably with the orderly and easy way in which I landed on the shore of the United States.
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Mr. Williams and Mrs. Jewkes came to me both together; he in ecstacies, she with a strange fluttering sort of air.
Pamela 2006
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"Oooh!" the others did cry out in their feminine ecstacies.
Shenanigans at the Jolliest Roger Douglas Hoffman 2005
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"Oooh!" the others did cry out in their feminine ecstacies.
Archive 2005-09-01 Douglas Hoffman 2005
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The merchant, in ecstacies with all he saw and heard, said to himself:
The Blue Fairy Book 2003
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Here was a panacea, a [Greek text] for all human woes; here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered: happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket; portable ecstacies might be had corked up in a pint bottle, and peace of mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail-coach.
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