sublimitate
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);
abl. sg.dat. sg.loc. sg.
Examples
Liber XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...Demosthenes? non cunctos illos tenues et circumspectos vi sublimitate impetu cultu compositione superavit? non insurgit locis? non figuris..."Liber X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...ortum dedit. hunc nemo in magnis rebus sublimitate, in parvis proprietate superaverit. Idem laetus ac pressus, iucundus..."Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...superest tempus, neque enim semel legentur. Interim et sublimitate heroi carminis animus adsurgat et ex magnitudine rerum spiritum..."Liber IV
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...immo etiam admiratione. Poematia appellat. Multa tenuiter multa sublimiter, multa venuste multa tenere, multa dulciter multa cum bile..."Liber I
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...luce vel suavitate vel splendore etiam et sublimitate narrandi. Nam in contionibus eadem quae in orationibus..."