Passion, fervour; vehemence of feeling. In Biblical language, as an attribute of God: passionate love or care which will tolerate no unfaithfulness…

= suspension, n. 7. Obsolete.

As a mass noun: transport of mind, mental exaltation or absorption, ecstasy; (now esp.) ecstatic delight or joy.

Behaviour or belief characteristic of a zealot (zealot, n. 3); zealotry.

Used by mystical writers as the technical name for the state of rapture in which the body was supposed to become incapable of sensation, while the…

The tendency to indulge in wild and extravagant notions, esp. in religious matters; excessive enthusiasm, frenzy; an instance, a particular form, of…

An ecstasy of contemplation. Obsolete. rare.

= fanaticism, n.

The state or quality of being rapturous.

Excessive inclination to religion; marked or affected religious zeal.

= rapture, n. 1.

The state of union with creation into which a perfected yogi or holy man is said to pass at his apparent death.

Religious zeal, fanaticism, extravagant enthusiasm for a cause or a person; an erotic attachment, esp. of one woman or adolescent girl for another…

Ecstatic devotion.

= ecstasy, n. 2 3.