#386 ecstasy

ecstasy- (got the spelling?) a state of exalted delight, joy, rapture; intense emotion of any kind; an ecstasy of rage; ecstatic adj.

C14 from Old French extasie, via Medieval Latin from Greek ekstasis displacement, trance

Two hearts floated in ecstasy with their starry gaze.

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