extasy
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of extasy
First recorded in 1610–20
Example Sentences
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Sfoot, that would be the more to drive me into such an extasy, that I should ne'er lin laughing.
From The Puritaine Widdow by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
When o' suddain, I saw the pole tremble and sway towardes me; and stretching forth my apron I did, in an extasy of gladness, pity, and horror, catch its burthen as it fell.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction by Arthur Mee
She felt all the elevated sentiments of pious extasy and triumph, which breath in that exquisite piece of sacred poetry.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV by Theophilus Cibber
And some sayeth, that their bodies lying stil as in an extasy, their spirits wil be rauished out of their bodies, & caried to such places.
From Daemonologie. by King of England James I
If he have done any thing that has passed with applause, he is always re-acting it alone, and conceits the extasy his hearers were in at every period.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
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