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What does sublimity mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word sublimity? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (uncountable) The state of being sublime.
  2. (countable) Something sublime.
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It means the sublimity of God, the immeasurability of God's wisdom and the fathomless complexity of God's creative Spirit.
Eagleton further associates this interfusion with the notion of sublimity, describing it thus.
The sublimity is lost in renderings as clumsy in verbal baldness as a schoolboy's crib.
Although rendered with detailed realism the particular was always subordinate to the general effect of transcendent beauty or sublimity.
To the ancient Greeks, the body was an object of esthetic contemplation, raised by their plastic art to the loftiest peaks of sublimity.
Ancient Egyptians knew the sublimity of exterior space, but interior space for them was darkness and clutter.

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