All 4 Uses of

sublime
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles

They were as sublime as the moon and stars above them, and the moon and stars were as ardent as they.†
Chpt 1 *

To her sublime trustfulness he was all that goodness could be—knew all that a guide, philosopher, and friend should know.†
Chpt 4

They walked on together and soon reached the farmhouse, which was almost sublime in its dreariness.†
Chpt 5

The cursory remarks of the large-minded stranger, of whom he knew absolutely nothing beyond a commonplace name, were sublimed by his death, and influenced Clare more than all the reasoned ethics of the philosophers.†
Chpt 6

Definitions:

(1) (sublime as in: she is sublime)
impressively wonderful -- often beautiful or morally admirable
(2) (sublime as in: sublime ignorance)
pure or extreme
(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.