Sublime
Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty.
Distinguished by lofty or noble traits; eminent; -- said of persons.
Awakening or expressing the emotion of awe, adoration, veneration, heroic resolve, etc.; dignified; grand; solemn; stately; -- said of an impressive object in nature, of an action, of a discourse, of a work of art, of a spectacle, etc.; as, sublime scenery; a sublime deed.
Elevated by joy; elate.
Lofty of mien; haughty; proud.
That which is sublime; -- with the definite article
A grand or lofty style in speaking or writing; a style that expresses lofty conceptions.
That which is grand in nature or art, as distinguished from the merely beautiful.
To raise on high.
To subject to the process of sublimation; to heat, volatilize, and condense in crystals or powder; to distill off, and condense in solid form; hence, also, to purify.
To exalt; to heighten; to improve; to purify.
To dignify; to ennoble.
To pass off in vapor, with immediate condensation; specifically, to evaporate or volatilize from the solid state without apparent melting; -- said of those substances, like arsenic, benzoic acid, etc., which do not exhibit a liquid form on heating, except under increased pressure.
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Sublime Quotations
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
Alexander Pope
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
James Russell Lowell
I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
Pope John Paul II
Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.
Robert E. Lee
There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
Eric Hoffer
A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.
Henry Ellis
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
Honore de Balzac
Sublime Translations
sublime in French is auguste
sublime in German is sublimierens, erhaben
sublime in Italian is elevato
sublime in Latin is sublimis
sublime in Spanish is encumbrado
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