SUBLIMITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sublimity mean? 

• SUBLIMITY (noun)
  The noun SUBLIMITY has 1 sense:

1. nobility in thought or feeling or style

  Familiarity information: SUBLIMITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBLIMITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Nobility in thought or feeling or style

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("sublimity" is a kind of...):

grandeur; magnanimousness; nobility; nobleness (the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct)

Derivation:

sublime (lifted up or set high)

 Context examples 

I had found sublimity and wonder in the dread heights and precipices, in the roaring torrents, and the wastes of ice and snow; but as yet, they had taught me nothing else.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was all the service she could now render her poor friend; for as to any of that heroism of sentiment which might have prompted her to entreat him to transfer his affection from herself to Harriet, as infinitely the most worthy of the two—or even the more simple sublimity of resolving to refuse him at once and for ever, without vouchsafing any motive, because he could not marry them both, Emma had it not.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)