Both Uses of
ecstatic
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Having seen that it was really her lover who had advanced, and no one else, her lips parted, and she sank upon him in her momentary joy, with something very like an ecstatic cry.†
Chpt 3ecstatic = feeling intense happiness and excitement
- In the ecstatic solemnity with which she swore her faith to him the ordinary sensibilities of sex seemed a flippancy.†
Chpt 4 *
Definition:
feeling intense happiness and excitement (as when in a state of ecstasy)