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ecstatics

British  
/ ɛkˈstætɪks /

plural noun

  1. fits of delight or rapture

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Foremost of the 21st century ecstatics are John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene, a husband-and-wife team.

From Time Magazine Archive

Seldom in the memory of U. S. theatrophiles have such ecstatics emanated from the critics as those greeting this play, the second of the Theatre Guild's season.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the infancy of modern music the solo existed only in the folk song, in the rhapsodies of religious ecstatics and in the uncertain lyrics of the minnesingers and troubadours.

From Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by W. J. (William James) Henderson

The teachings of these ecstatics were tested by Scripture; if found to agree therewith, they were accepted; if not, rejected.

From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by James Freeman Clarke

On this point all mystics and all metaphysical ecstatics are agreed; "God is love" is written in the Gospel of St. John.

From The Evolution of Love by Ellie Schleussner

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