| 单词 | ecstasy of sorrow |
| 释义 | > as lemmasecstasy of sorrow a. An exalted state of feeling which engrosses the mind to the exclusion of thought; rapture, transport. Now chiefly, Intense or rapturous delight: the expressions ecstasy of woe, ecstasy of sorrow, ecstasy of despair, etc., still occur, but are usually felt as transferred. Phrase, to be in ecstasy, to dissolve in ecstasy (trans. and intr.), be thrown into ecstasies, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > [noun] ravishment1477 exaltationa1513 ecstasy1526 enragement1596 rapture1598 trance1598 transportation1617 raptery1640 enravishment1656 transport1658 rapturousnessa1687 sublimation1816 raptus1845 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. IIIiv After they come downe agayne to themselfe frome suche excessiue eleuacion or extasy. 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses Ep. Ded. sig. ¶iiiv In extasie of despaire. 1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Divv In a sorrow-sighing extasie, Henry tooke leaue. 1620 J. Melton Astrologaster 4 This extasie of my admiration was broken off by the occasion of a noyse. 1645 J. Milton Il Penseroso in Poems 43 As may with sweetnes, through mine ear, Dissolve me into extasies. a1704 T. Brown Pleas. Love in Wks. (1707) I. i. 151 In Exstasies I wou'd dissolving lie. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 32 Boyish Tricks that I play'd in the Extacy of my Joy. 1820 W. Scott Monastery I. v. 182 The ecstasy of the Monk's terror. 1831 T. B. Macaulay Moore's Life Byron in Ess. (1854) I. 165 What somebody calls the ‘ecstasy of woe’. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 627 The crowd was wrought up to such an ecstasy of rage that, etc. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. i. 37 There had been no ecstasy, no gladness even. 1879 M. Arnold Fr. Crit. Milton in Mixed Ess. Ess. 242 When he hears it he is in ecstasies. < as lemmas |
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