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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

The compiler of this book, the men he quotes, the ecstatics in general—revivalists, hermits, nuns and monks in all ages—do you believe that as a class they were well balanced?

From Mr. Claghorn's Daughter by Hilary Trent

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 John Addington Symonds

These ecstatics were animated not by a pure, but by an impure spirit.

From The Evolution of Love by Ellie Schleussner

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