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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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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.

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

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At the same time she utilised the spiritual forces of monasticism, and turned the mystic impulse of ecstatics to account.

From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington

But the mundane achievements, the monasteries and churches, of nine-tenths of these southern ecstatics are the work of the confessor and not of the saint.

From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman

There is not much attempt among these ecstatics to hold on to the dignity of their reason or the reticence of their self-respect.

From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by Powys, John Cowper

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