extasy
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of extasy
First recorded in 1610–20
Example Sentences
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Beneath impenetrable green, Down 'midst the hazel stems was seen The turbid stream, with all that past; The lime-white deck, the gliding mast; Or skiff with gazers darting by, Who rais'd their hands in extasy.
From The Banks of Wye by Bloomfield, Robert
Our artist has endeavoured to represent the noble creature in his bath, though the pencil can afford but an imperfect idea of the extasy of the animal on this occasion.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 560, August 4, 1832 by Various
Hang the dunce Who would not doff his cap at once In extasy, when, bold and new, Bursts on his sight a mountain-view.
From The Banks of Wye by Bloomfield, Robert
There is little, however, of that rapturous extasy which issues from many a finally most infelicitous husband, some days, weeks, or even months, after the conjugal union.
From The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 by Harrison, James
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)
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