All 11 Uses of
ecstasy
in
Crime and Punishment
- The small lady positively skipped from her seat on seeing him, and fell to curtsying in a sort of ecstasy; but the officer took not the smallest notice of her, and she did not venture to sit down again in his presence.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- A cry of joy, of ecstasy, greeted Raskolnikov's entrance.†
Chpt 2.7
- Now he was in a state bordering on ecstasy, and all that he had drunk seemed to fly to his head with redoubled effect.†
Chpt 3.1
- Razumihin cried in ecstasy, "let us go!†
Chpt 3.1
- She read loudly, cold and trembling with ecstasy, as though she were seeing it before her eyes.†
Chpt 4.4
- The fever had complete hold of him; he was in a sort of gloomy ecstasy (he certainly had been too long without talking to anyone).†
Chpt 5.4
- He was amazed at her sudden ecstasy.†
Chpt 5.4
- It was conceived on sleepless nights, with a throbbing heart, in ecstasy and suppressed enthusiasm.†
Chpt 6.2
- And in the fourth or fifth century she would have walked away into the Egyptian desert and would have stayed there thirty years living on roots and ecstasies and visions.†
Chpt 6.4
- You know, the Sistine Madonna's face has something fantastic in it, the face of mournful religious ecstasy.†
Chpt 6.4
- These two pieces of news excited Pulcheria Alexandrovna's disordered imagination almost to ecstasy.†
Chpt Epil.
Definition:
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(ecstasy as in: a state of ecstasy) a state of intense happiness