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Definition
feeling intense happiness and excitement (as when in a state of ecstasy)
- 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 Welland; and slightly withdrawn behind these brocaded matrons sat a young girl in white with eyes ecstatically fixed on the stagelovers.Chapter 1 (34% in)
- 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.Chapter 17 (93% in)
There are no more uses of "ecstatic" in The Age of Innocence.
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