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
Nobody has written anything more tender than he, nobody anything sublimer than he.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Robert Green Ingersoll
Never was there a sublimer contest of the great forces of nature.
From The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts by George W. Holley
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
