sub|lim|i|ty

sub|lim|i|ty
sub|lim|i|ty «suh BLIHM uh tee», noun, plural -ties.
1. lofty excellence; grandeur; majesty; exalted state: »

There was an awful sublimity in the hoarse murmuring of the thunder (Francis Parkman).

2. something sublime; sublime person or thing: »

The soul…retains an obscure sense Of possible sublimity (Wordsworth).


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