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Definition of Sublimity
1. Noun. Nobility in thought or feeling or style.
Definition of Sublimity
1. n. The quality or state of being sublime (in any sense of the adjective).
Definition of Sublimity
1. Noun. The state of being sublime. ¹
2. Noun. Something sublime. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sublimity
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sublimity
Literary usage of Sublimity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind by Thomas Brown, David Welsh (1860)
"In the moral world, the ( errors in the theory of beauty. sublimity audacity of
guilt cannot seem beautiful to us is not one emotion, ..."
2. Elements of Mental Philosophy by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1847)
"The measure of the sublimity of the object is the character of the emotion which
it excites; and if the sublime emotion exists, as unquestionably it does on ..."
3. Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text-book for by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1852)
"The ocean, greatly agitated with a storm, and tossing the largest navies as if
in sport, possesses an increase of sublimity, on account of the more ..."
4. Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text-book for by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1848)
"The ocean, greatly agitated with a storm, and tossing the largest navies as if
in sport, possesses an increase of sublimity, on account of the more striking ..."
5. Elements of Mental Philosophy by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1845)
"The ocean, greatly agitated with a storm, and tossing the largest navies as if
in sport, possesses an increase of sublimity, on account of the more striking ..."
6. Elements of Mental Philosophy by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1847)
"The ocean, greatly agitated with a storm, and tossing the largest navies as if
in sport, possesses an increase of sublimity, on account of the more striking ..."
7. Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text-book for by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1854)
"The ocean, greatly agitated with a storm, and tossing the largest navies as if
iu sport, possesses an increase of sublimity, on account of the more striking ..."
8. Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text-book for by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1843)
"The measure of the sublimity of the object is the character of the emotion which
it excites; and if the sublime emotion exists, as unquestionably it does on ..."
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