sublimity

IPA: sʌbɫˈɪmɪti

noun

  • (uncountable) The quality or state of being sublime.
  • (countable) Something sublime.
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Examples of "sublimity" in Sentences

  • This modern form of sublimity is more complex than mere technophobia.
  • In this volume religious sublimity is clothed in childlike simplicity.
  • That sublimity, which is one manifestation of beauty, is of the spirit, and by the spirit it must be apprehended.
  • That the ass, which in its very degradation still retains an under-power of sublimity, [Footnote: '_An under-power of sublimity_.'
  • Burnett — Author of The Theory of Earth [14] a book which equals Milton in sublimity, & which for ingenuity never perhaps was equalled.
  • The very sublimity is the cause of the difficulty of the style, and of the presence of peculiar expressions occurring, not found elsewhere.
  • The chief characteristic of Milton's poetry is its sublimity, which is the natural outcome of the magnificence of his conceptions and of his own pure imaginative genius.
  • The sublimity is so overpowering as naturally to prompt the exclamation that if the divine steeds were to leap thus twice in succession they would pass beyond the confines of the world.

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