Both Uses of
ecstatic
in
The Age of Innocence
- On this occasion, the front of the box was filled by her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Lovell Mingott, and her daughter, Mrs. Welland; and slightly withdrawn behind these brocaded matrons sat a young girl in white with eyes ecstatically fixed on the stagelovers.†
Chpt 1 *
- As the Marchioness Manson rose to her climax her face assumed an expression of ecstatic retrospection which would have moved Archer's mirth had he not been numb with amazement.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(ecstatic) feeling intense happiness and excitement (as when in a state of ecstasy)