Sublimity
[sə'blɪmɪtɪ] or [səb'lɪməti]
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being sublime (in any sense of the adjective).
(n.) That which is sublime; as, the sublimities of nature.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Grandeur, greatness, nobleness, loftiness, exaltation.
Checker: Lucy
Examples
- The very excess of our misery carried a relief with it, giving sublimity and elevation to sorrow. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- What sublimity of conception! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Stoic tried to win men's hearts and convictions by sheer subtlety of abstract argument and dazzling sublimity of thought and expression. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He is the painter who has been held to combine the most complete grace of form with sublimity of expression. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It suggests no crystal waters, no picturesque shores, no sublimity. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- His emotions responded to the glories of tropica l vegetation in the Brazilian forests, and to the sublimity of Patagonian wastes and the forest-cl ad hills of Tierra del Fuego. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- What would you think of a man who gazed upon a dingy, foggy sunset, and said: What sublimity! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The thoughts Jerusalem suggests are full of poetry, sublimity, and more than all, dignity. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Editor: Randolph