sublimely

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Synonyms for sublimely

adv in an attractive or pleasing manner

Antonyms for sublimely

poorly

Word Origin & History

1580s, "expressing lofty ideas in an elevated manner," from Middle French sublime, from Latin sublimis "uplifted, high, lofty," possibly originally "sloping up to the lintel," from sub "up to" + limen "lintel."

The sublime (n.) "the sublime part of anything" is from 1670s. Sublime Porte, former title of the Ottoman government, is from French la Sublime Porte, literally "the high gate," a loan-translation of Arabic Bab 'Ali, title of the Ottoman court at Constantinople (cf. mikado).

Example Sentences for sublimely

I cared for nothing but that sublimely aesthetic impression.

“No one would see us here,” said she, sublimely irrelevant, as usual.

And Lorraine's education began, too—but she was sublimely unconscious of that fact.

And heroic, sublimely heroic, may be the Christianity of the battlefield.

And all the while America is sublimely unconscious that the joys of childhood are not hers.

We agree that we have seen nothing in our lives so sublimely beautiful.

They were sublimely guileless, divinely charitable and inflexibly austere.

How valiently they fought, how serenely and sublimely they died.

Lady Hainault was calmly inexorable, Adelaide sublimely indifferent.

Theology they were, from anything that appears, sublimely ignorant of.

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