Crossword clues for sublimer
sublimer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sublime \Sub*lime"\, a. [Compar. Sublimer; superl. Sublimest.] [L. sublimis; sub under + (perhaps) a word akin to limen lintel, sill, thus meaning, up to the lintel: cf. F. sublime. Cf. Eliminate.]
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Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty.
Sublime on these a tower of steel is reared.
--Dryden. Distinguished by lofty or noble traits; eminent; -- said of persons. ``The sublime Julian leader.''
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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.
Easy in words thy style, in sense sublime.
--Prior.Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
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Elevated by joy; elate. [Poetic]
Their hearts were jocund and sublime, Drunk with idolatry, drunk with wine.
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Lofty of mien; haughty; proud. [Poetic] ``Countenance sublime and insolent.''
--Spenser.His fair, large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule.
--Milton.Syn: Exalted; lofty; noble; majestic. See Grand.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: sublime)
Usage examples of "sublimer".
The Scottish forest, no doubt, is the sublimer scene, and speaks to the imagination in a loftier language than the English forest can reach.
The havoc of sin, the might of Christ, the freedom of the human spirit, the righteousness of God, the fate of souls, are materials out of which sublimer cathedral should be built than ever Gothic Christians wrought in poetry of stone.
I am tempted to-day to go farther, and to maintain that, the larger, the sublimer, your subject is, the more impertinent rhyme becomes to it: and that this impertinence increases in a sort of geometrical progression as you advance from monosyllabic to dissyllabic and on to trisyllabic rhyme.
Start not--the thing you are is unbetrayed, If you are human, and if but the shade Of some sublimer spirit.
The few drones, other AIs and Minds that became persuaded of the merit of this course of action through the arguments of the Sublimers tended to do what any other machine did on such occasions and disappear in the direction of the nearest Sublimed Entity, though one or two stuck around in a pre-Sublimed state long enough to help the cause.