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• (rapture)- ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy, ( ,
); They passed an evening and night of delirious rapture, it being a
continuous rough-house save when they would fall asleep for an hour or two
from sheer exhaustion. — Letters to His Children;
• (exaltation)- elation of mind or feeling, sometimes abnormal or morbid in
character; rapture, ( , ); But his exaltation was of brief
duration, for there beside him stood Isabel like an accusing angel, severe and
implacable. — Blacksheep! Blacksheep!;
• (apotheosis)- the elevation or exaltation of a person to the rank of a god,
( , ); I see my own apotheosis, my
public funeral, my nation's tears, my burial in the glorious church. — The Law
and the Lady;
• the ideal example; epitome; quintessence;
• (rarefied)- extremely high or elevated; lofty; exalted;
• made less dense [of a gas]; The air was so rarefied, the drive so exciting, that
I shouted with all my might, "Go on, reindeer, go on—The Land of the Long
Night;
stoic, apathetic
stoic = stolid = apathetic = phlegmatic = impassive = objective : tepid :
insensible
• (stoic)- seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain;
impassive, ( ,
, - ); She
was no stoic, no teacher of moral precepts, no didactic debater about moral
duties, no mere dilettante advocate of human rights. — George Eliot; A Critical
Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy;
• of or pertaining to the school of philosophy founded by Zeno, who taught
that people should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and
submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, (
);
• (stolid)- not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive,
( , ); All were silent and stolid, and I could hardly resist