The Only Use of
sublime
in
Antigone
- Not sleep that lays all else beneath its spell, Nor moons that never tire: untouched by Time, Throned in the dazzling light That crowns Olympus' height, Thou reignest King, omnipotent, sublime.†
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.