Both Uses of
sublime
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- He had sunk from his modest elevation as pastoral king into the very slime-pits of Siddim; but there was left to him a dignified calm he had never before known, and that indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.†
Chpt 4-6
- The special verse in the Book of Ruth was sought out by Bathsheba, and the sublime words met her eye.†
Chpt 13-15 *
Definition:
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(sublime as in: she is sublime) impressively wonderful -- often beautiful or morally admirable