ecstasies in English

noun
1
an overwhelming feeling of great happiness or joyful excitement.
there was a look of ecstasy on his face
2
an emotional or religious frenzy or trancelike state, originally one involving an experience of mystic self-transcendence.
Stigmatics often receive religious visions or ecstasies , having visions of Christ and various saints, and also ‘re-living’ or seeing parts of Christ's passion and sharing in his suffering.
3
an amphetamine-based synthetic drug with euphoric and hallucinatory effects, originally promoted as an adjunct to psychotherapy.
The recreational drug ecstasy is neurotoxic if taken in high enough doses.

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1. Their ecstasies, their agonies and lessons to be learned.

2. The heather, purple now, they went into ecstasies over.

3. She went into ecstasies about the ring he had bought her.

4. Her mouth foamed with Abashment--she spoke, she didn't speak: ecstasies of impossible love

5. Antonyms for Anguishes include happinesses, blessednesses, blisses, blissfulnesses, cheers, cheerfulnesses, cheerinesses, contentments, delights and ecstasies

6. The enchanting performance of the bull sent the demon into ecstasies, and he asked the flutist to tell him what he desired.

7. Taking her cue from the Roman orgies of legend, Misha explores the ecstasies of group sex in the inventive cluster-fuck "Bacchanalia."

8. Abecedarians, a sect of Anabaptists who affected an absolute disdain for all human knowledge, contending that God would enlighten His elect interiorly and give them knowledge of necessary truths by visions and ecstasies

9. The Apparitions were also characterized by an abundance of words, the length of the ecstasies, songs, prayers of intercession, blessings (especially by means of water), repeated falls during the same apparition on certain days (from August 15, 1982 until the end of Lent in 1983), and other mortifications.