sublime
adjective
elevated or lofty in thought, language, etc.: Paradise Lost is sublime poetry.
sublimer
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a word derived from
sublime.
Example Sentences
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Surely, he admonished, “its beauty was enhanced by wrecks like this, and it acquired thus a rarer and sublimer beauty still.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 19, 2015
There was almost no talk of politics; the wine and the company prompted sublimer subjects.
From Time Magazine Archive
To have lived and labored and died for the right—nothing can be sublimer.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political by Robert Green Ingersoll
And I feel almost guilty of high treason against the majesty of the sublimer Muses, in the remark I am going to hazard, on the celebrated lines which follow.
From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by Hannah More
And that thought, doubtless, made my sorrow sublimer; but also it made it deeper.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various
