sublimitas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →sublimitas, sublimitatis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
height (altitude/extent); high/elevated place; sense of exaltation; sublimity;; magnanimity; loftiness of character/style; elevated state of mind; grandeur;; superior being; your highness (w/tua in titles);
nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
- L
de Vita Beata
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...inaestimabile bonum, quies mentis in tuto conlocatae et sublimitas expulsisque erroribus ex cognitione ueri gaudium grande et inmotum..." - M
Liber XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...diceret eminere inter aequalis Trachalus videbatur: ea corporis sublimitas erat, is ardor oculorum, frontis auctoritas, gestus praestantia..." - M
Liber X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...rebus spiritus et in verbis sublimitas et in adfectibus motus omnis et in personis decor petitur, praecipueque velut..." - M
Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...suam non adclamatione tantum sed etiam plausu confiteretur? sublimitas profecto et magnificentia et nitor et auctoritas expressit illum..."