All 11 Uses of
ecstasy
in
The Idiot
- She was almost like a madwoman, with excitement and ecstasy, whenever I came.†
Chpt 1.6 *
- You may imagine her ecstasy, her gratitude.†
Chpt 1.14
- He was panting with ecstasy.†
Chpt 1.16
- The whole of Regojin's being was concentrated in one rapturous gaze of ecstasy.†
Chpt 1.16
- He was hopelessly and wildly beside himself with ecstasy.†
Chpt 1.16
- Lebedeff wore an expression of utmost ecstasy.†
Chpt 2.9
- I felt an ecstasy in being in my native land once more; and one sunny morning I took up a pen and wrote her that letter, but why to HER, I don't quite know.†
Chpt 2.12
- Every misfortune and mishap of the mother-country fills him with mirth, and even with ecstasy.†
Chpt 3.1
- Farther on, in another place, she wrote: "Do not consider my words as the sickly ecstasies of a diseased mind, but you are, in my opinion—perfection!†
Chpt 3.10
- The general was in ecstasies, for the prince's remarks, made, as they evidently were, in all seriousness and simplicity, quite dissipated the last relics of his suspicion.†
Chpt 4.4
- He stood still in alarm—in almost superstitious alarm, for a moment; then all mists seemed to clear away from his eyes; he was conscious of nothing but light and joy and ecstasy; his breath came and went; but the moment passed.†
Chpt 4.7
Definition:
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(ecstasy as in: a state of ecstasy) a state of intense happiness