All 4 Uses of
ecstasy
in
Northanger Abbey
- I am in such ecstasies at the thoughts of a little country air and quiet!†
Chpt 11 *
- A very short visit to Mrs. Allen, in which Henry talked at random, without sense or connection, and Catherine, rapt in the contemplation of her own unutterable happiness, scarcely opened her lips, dismissed them to the ecstasies of another tete-a-tete; and before it was suffered to close, she was enabled to judge how far he was sanctioned by parental authority in his present application.†
Chpt 30
- A cottage in some retired village would be ecstasy.†
Chpt 15
- These were thrilling words, and wound up Catherine's feelings to the highest point of ecstasy.†
Chpt 17
Definitions:
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(1)
(ecstasy as in: ecstasy of love) a state of intense happiness
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, ecstasy is used as the street name of an illegal drug known to produce feelings of euphoria, but associated with damage of the central nervous system.
Still more rarely, ecstasy can reference a trance, frenzy, or altered state of consciousness marked by overwhelming emotion -- especially joy from a religious experience.