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
Nowhere does life run to such extremes;—nowhere is there such pauperism as in London; nowhere is there such wealth; nowhere does man lift a sublimer face to the stars; nowhere does he fall so low.
From Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
Why should the tempest be sublimer than an electric experiment, a rainbow greater than a soap-bubble?
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography by Jean Paul
Don't utterly forget those asses,— Ridden so long,—the lower classes; But waking from sublimer visions, Just see, poor things! to their provisions.
From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various
