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sublimity

[ suh-blim-i-tee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural sub·lim·i·ties

1520–30; < Latin sublīmitās height, equivalent to sublīm ( is ) sublime + -itās -ity

Bailey talked about the “sublimity of nature” that he believes Hockney communicates in his pictures.

I would not just then have traded off that steamboat for several square miles of snow-capped sublimity.

The loftiest pagan philosophy dwindled into insignificance before the sublimity of Christian hope.

The critics say that his sublimity of diction is sometimes carried to an extreme, so that his language becomes inflated.

What is remarkable in the scenery is, that its sublimity is an inversion of the sublimity of almost all other grand scenery.

There is a touch of sublimity in that, and the basia of Baal-Zeboub may well enough be more demoralising than those of Secundus.

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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