Meanings of religious ecstasy in English

The village as a whole had given itself over to religious ecstasy.

His grim soul now rose to its first long flight of religious ecstasy.

A passion for self-sacrifice rushed through her with the piercing sweetness of religious ecstasy.

I can imagine religious ecstasy, but you are not ecstatic.

White bread, golden brown and crusty, was stimulating him to an almost religious ecstasy.

With what other word can Hamlet's passionate utterances be designated than that of religious ecstasy?

A state of religious ecstasy might involve dissociation.

If it were possible so to apprehend God without cessation, life would dissolve in religious ecstasy.

The abbe, deeply moved, recited the "Veni Creator" in a species of religious ecstasy.

Then a religious ecstasy seized all present.

There is nothing of the gorgeous architectural splendours of Bach, nothing of Bach's depth nor high religious ecstasy.

A look of religious ecstasy swept the stern face of the Puritan and his eyes glittered with an unearthly glare.

Two conflicting emotions took hold of him at once-thefirst an enthusiastic, religious ecstasy, the other a low, criminal cunning.

And more than this, I had an experience of my own which seemed to reflect this spirit of religious ecstasy.

Of course, plant drugs are not the only technologies of religious ecstasy; fasting, meditation, and hypnotic trances can achieve similar results.

Originally tolerated as a means of producing cheerfulness and religious ecstasy, drinking gradually became the standing feature of every hasidic gathering.