ecstatics
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Foremost of the 21st century ecstatics are John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene, a husband-and-wife team.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the peculiar abberations of the saints above named and other ecstatics, see Maudsley, as above, pp.
From History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by White, Andrew Dickson
Other powers, however, are still reserved to those who are the masters of the spiritual life;—for not all persons, however holy, are contemplatives, ecstatics, or seers.
From The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary by Benson, Robert Hugh
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
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