Both Uses
sublime
in
Invisible Man, by Ellison
(Edited)
- Was she calling me beautiful or boogieful, beautiful or sublime ….
Chpt 24 *sublime = impressively wonderful
- No indeed, the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.
Chpt Epil. *sublimely = extremely
Definitions:
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(sublime as in: she is sublime) impressively wonderful -- often beautiful or morally admirable
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(sublime as in: sublime ignorance) pure or extreme
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(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.