All 3 Uses of
sublime
in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Ah, it's sublime, sublime!
Chpt 21sublime = impressively wonderful
- Ah, it's sublime, sublime!
Chpt 21
- ...in their sublime Shakespearean Spectacle...
Chpt 21 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(sublime as in: she is sublime) impressively wonderful -- often beautiful or morally admirable
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(2)
(sublime as in: sublime ignorance) pure or extreme
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, in chemistry or physics, sublime is used to indicate that something changes from a solid into a vapor without first melting; or vaporizes and then condenses right back again. That sense of the word is also often seen in the form sublimate.