ecstasizing

"ecstasizing" virtue, of the deification of the worshiper, and of the process of the Holy Spirit.

TELOSscope: The Telos Press blog Francisco Unger 2010

Smiles eddied about the boy's face, his heels skipped, disdaining the honest grass; and presently he broke into a glad little song, all trills and shakes, like that of a bird ecstasizing over the perfections of his mate.

The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages James Branch Cabell 1918

E "hasn't been the subject of my ecstasizing for a while, but that's not because I love Andrew Stanton's animated masterpiece any less.

This 'Robin' Is in the Wrong 'Hood 2010

The full recognition of the futility of their infatuation, from a social point of view; its purposeless beginning; its self-bounded outlook; its lack of everything to justify its existence in the eye of civilization (while lacking nothing in the eye of Nature); the one fact that it did exist, ecstasizing them to a killing joy; all this imparted to them a resignation, a dignity, which a practical and sordid expectation of winning him as a husband would have destroyed.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1891

The full recognition of the futility of their infatuation, from a social point of view; its purposeless beginning; its self-bounded outlook; its lack of everything to justify its existence in the eye of civilization (while lacking nothing in the eye of Nature); the one fact that it did exist, ecstasizing them to a killing joy -- all this imparted to them a resignation, a dignity, which a practical and sordid expectation of winning him as a husband would have destroyed.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884

He had conceived the notion that Ginevra probably disliked his profession, and took pains therefore to show how much he was a man of the world -- talked about Shakspere, and flaunted rags of quotation in elocutionary style; got books from his study, and read passages from Byron, Shelley, and Moore -- chiefly from "The Loves of the Angels" of the last, ecstasizing the lawyer's lady, and interesting Ginevra, though all he read taken together seemed to her unworthy of comparison with one of poor Donal's songs.

Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864