All 5 Uses of
ecstatic
in
The Idiot
- This reasoning, however, seemed to end in a paradox, and lead to the further consideration:—"What matter though it be only disease, an abnormal tension of the brain, if when I recall and analyze the moment, it seems to have been one of harmony and beauty in the highest degree—an instant of deepest sensation, overflowing with unbounded joy and rapture, ecstatic devotion, and completest life?"†
Chpt 2.5ecstatic = feeling intense happiness and excitement
- For the rest, he thought the dialectical part of his argument of little worth; he saw only too clearly that the result of these ecstatic moments was stupefaction, mental darkness, idiocy.†
Chpt 2.5
- Varia greeted them joyfully, and they exchanged confidences in ecstatic whispers.†
Chpt 2.6 *
- Because your own heart is good!" cried the ecstatic old gentleman, and, strangely enough, real tears glistened in his eyes.†
Chpt 4.4
- All this heated tirade, this outflow of passionate words and ecstatic ideas which seemed to hustle and tumble over each other as they fell from his lips, bore evidence of some unusually disturbed mental condition in the young fellow who had "boiled over" in such a remarkable manner, without any apparent reason.†
Chpt 4.7
Definition:
feeling intense happiness and excitement (as when in a state of ecstasy)