Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a sublime manner; with exalted conceptions; loftily.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a sublime manner.

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  • adverb In a sublime manner.

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  • adverb completely; in a lofty and exalted manner

Etymologies

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sublime +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Another exercise in sublimely spooky, Gothy electro from the recent Matador signees.

    Singles file: Nicki Minaj, Crystal Castles, U.S. Royalty Allison Stewart 2010

  • She hints at what she wants, and Lohengrin gives her, to a very pretty tune, an answer that can merely be called sublimely fatuous.

    Richard Wagner Runciman, John F 1913

  • She hints at what she wants, and Lohengrin gives her, to a very pretty tune, an answer that can merely be called sublimely fatuous.

    Richard Wagner Composer of Operas John F. Runciman 1891

  • To enrich, and be thereby the richer; for Roger's actions of finance were so simple, as to run the risk of being called sublimely indistinct: he took it as an axiom that "money bred money," but in what way to draw forth its generative properties, whether or not by some new-fangled manure, he was entirely ignorant; and it clearly was his wisdom to leave all that mystery of money-making solely to the banker.

    The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

  • a creature that could be truthfully called sublimely beautiful, thought

    The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist Robert E. [Illustrator] Bell 1902

  • "But," say I, "what sublime intelligence conceived the plan of those machines, and what kind of sublimely skilful craftsman was able to fashion them?"

    Heart and Soul by Maveric Post Victor Mapes 1906

  • Proulx writes "sublimely" about man's relationship to landscape, said Sam Leith in the

    The First Post: Latest 2008

  • What sublime intelligence conceived the plan of that bit of protoplasm -- and what kind of sublimely skilful craftsman was able to fashion it? "

    Heart and Soul by Maveric Post Victor Mapes 1906

  • Not to get all metaphysical, but something about suspending who they are in normal time and space seems to translate into sublimely stupid decision making.

    Rosalyn Hoffman: Travel Tips to Keep You Covered Rosalyn Hoffman 2011

  • Not to get all metaphysical, but something about suspending who they are in normal time and space seems to translate into sublimely stupid decision making.

    Rosalyn Hoffman: Travel Tips to Keep You Covered Rosalyn Hoffman 2011

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