All 3 Uses of
ecstasy
in
Bleak House
- Hence, Mr. Snagsby, at last hearing the cock at the little dairy in Cursitor Street go into that disinterested ecstasy of his on the subject of daylight, says, drawing a long breath, though the most patient of men, "I thought you was dead, I am sure!"†
Chpt 10-12
- In short, we heard of a great many missions of various sorts among this set of people, but nothing respecting them was half so clear to us as that it was Mr. Quale's mission to be in ecstasies with everybody else's mission and that it was the most popular mission of all.†
Chpt 13-15 *
- One other singularity was that nobody with a mission—except Mr. Quale, whose mission, as I think I have formerly said, was to be in ecstasies with everybody's mission— cared at all for anybody's mission.†
Chpt 28-30
Definition:
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(ecstasy as in: a state of ecstasy) a state of intense happiness