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sublimely, adv.|səˈblaɪmlɪ|
[f. sublime a. + -ly2.]
†1. Aloft; highly; at or to a height. Obs.
a1599Rollock Passion xli. (1616) 404 When thus way by checking, Hee hath beaten downe the imaginations..and cogitations that sublimely rose out of the minde. 1648Boyle Motives Love of God §14. 89 His soveraign Tranquillity is so sublimely plac'd, that 'tis above the reach of all Disquieting Impressions.
2. With sublimity of form, thought, expression, style; in a lofty or exalted manner. Also ironical.
1693Congreve in Dryden's Juvenal (1697) 294 Verse so sublimely good, no Voice can wrong. 1700Luctus Brit., Death Dryden 55 His Works are all sublimely Great. 1735Pope Prol. Sat. 187 Whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not Poetry, but prose run mad. 1816T. L. Peacock Headlong Hall vii, The sublimely romantic pass of Aberglaslynn. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede xvii, There are..few sublimely beautiful women. 1884Macm. Mag. Oct. 443/1 Of this difficulty our Saxon-loving friends..are sublimely unconscious. |