The Only Use of
sublime
in
Great Expectations
- As I passed the church, I felt (as I had felt during service in the morning) a sublime compassion for the poor creatures who were destined to go there, Sunday after Sunday, all their lives through, and to lie obscurely at last among the low green mounds.†
Chpt 19
Definition:
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(sublime as in: she is sublime) impressively wonderful -- often beautiful or morally admirable