sublimitatem
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);
acc. sg.
Examples
Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...quam tristis alieno. Cum se in hanc sublimitatem tulit, corporis quoque ut oneris necessarii non amator sed procurator..."Liber IV
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...horum utrumque invicem adiumento fuit. Nam dolori sublimitatem et magnificentiam ingenium, ingenio vim et amaritudinem dolor addidit. Vale..."Liber I
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...Disputat subtiliter graviter ornate, frequenter etiam Platonicam illam sublimitatem et latitudinem effingit. Sermo est copiosus et varius, dulcis..."