sublimity
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English sublimite, sublimitee, from Middle French sublimité and/or Latin sublīmitās.[1] By surface analysis, sublime + -ity.
Noun
[edit]sublimity (countable and uncountable, plural sublimities)
- (uncountable) The quality or state of being sublime.
- Synonyms: (archaic) sublime, sublimeness
- 1838, Horace, “Satire IV”, in David Hunter, transl., The Satires and Epistles of Horace, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC, book I, pages 20–21, lines 63–66:
- The frantic father struts the stage, / And swells with true sublimity of rage / Against his son, who leads a wanton life, / And scorns the offer of a dowried wife.
- (countable) Something sublime.
- Synonym: (archaic) sublime
Translations
[edit]quality or state of being sublime
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References
[edit]- ^ “sublimity, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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