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Sublimity

Definition: Sublimity

Sublimity

Noun

1. Nobility in thought or feeling or style.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sublimity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

Etymology: Sublimity \Sub*lim"i*ty\, noun; plural Sublimities. [Latin sublimitas: compare to French sublimit['e].]. (Websters 1913)


Synonym: Sublimity

Synonym: the sublime (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Sublimity, Oregon

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Sublimity is a city located in Marion County, Oregon. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 2,148.

Geography


Sublimity is located at 44°49'47" North, 122°47'34" West (44.829817, -122.792870)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.5 km² (0.9 mi²). 2.5 km² (0.9 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 2,148 people, 686 households, and 509 families residing in the city. The population density is 873.0/km² (2,259.7/mi²). There are 711 housing units at an average density of 289.0/km² (748.0/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 97.44% White, 0.09% African American, 0.47% Native American, 0.28% Asian, 0.23% Pacific Islander, 0.23% from other races, and 1.26% from two or more races. 1.63% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 686 households out of which 36.2% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 65.6% are married couples living together, 6.6% have a female householder with no husband present, and 25.7% are non-families. 22.0% of all households are made up of individuals and 13.7% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.67 and the average family size is 3.14. In the city the population is spread out with 24.3% under the age of 18, 5.4% from 18 to 24, 22.2% from 25 to 44, 18.7% from 45 to 64, and 29.3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 43 years. For every 100 females there are 81.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 75.5 males. The median income for a household in the city is $49,034, and the median income for a family is $55,921. Males have a median income of $42,734 versus $25,924 for females. The per capita income for the city is $18,646. 7.5% of the population and 4.9% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 7.8% are under the age of 18 and 8.9% are 65 or older.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sublimity, Oregon."

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Synonyms within Context: Sublimity

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Beauty

Pulchritude, form elegance, grace, beauty unadorned, natural beauty; symmetry; comeliness, fairness; Adjective: polish, gloss; good effect, good looks; belle tournure; trigness; bloom, brilliancy, radiance, splendor, gorgeousness, magnificence; sublimity, sublimification.

Disinterestedness

Noun: disinterestedness; Adjective: generosity; liberality, liberalism; altruism; benevolence; elevation, loftiness of purpose, exaltation, magnanimity; chivalry, chivalrous spirit; heroism, sublimity.

Height

Noun: height, altitude, elevation; eminence, pitch; loftiness; Adjective: sublimity.

Repute

Dignity; stateliness; Adjective: solemnity, grandeur, splendor, nobility, majesty, sublimity.

Vigor

Noun: vigor, power, force; boldness, raciness; Adjective: intellectual, force; spirit, point, antithesis, piquance, piquancy; verve, glow, fire, warmth; strong language; gravity, sententiousness; elevation, loftiness, sublimity.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Sublimity

English words defined with "sublimity": sublimely, Sublimeness, Sublimities ♦ To do reverence ♦ utterly. (references)

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Modern Usage: Sublimity

DomainUsage

Screenplays

A divine music bursts out over them all. A great mass of death! Requiem mass for Wolfgang Mozart, composed by his dear friend, Antonio Salieri! Oh what sublimity, what depth, what passion in the music! (Amadeus; writing credit: Peter Shaffer;)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Sublimity

DomainTitle

Books

  • John Barth: The Comic Sublimity of Paradox (Crosscurrents/Modern Critiques) (reference)

  • Reclaiming William Morris: Englishness, Sublimity, and the Rhetoric of Dissent (reference)

  • Shakespeare's Perfume: Sodomy and Sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud, and Lacan (New Cultural Studies) (reference)

  • Silence, Sublimity, and Suppression in the Romantic Period (Mellen Studies in Literature. Romantic Reassessment, V. 157) (reference)

  • Sublimity in the Novels of Ann Radcliffe (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Sublimity

AuthorQuotation

Longinus

Sublimity is the echo of a noble mind.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Sublimity

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

We are prohibited from embalming a sublimity in history.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Sublimity

"Sublimity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sublimity" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2766,962

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: Sublimity


1. Sublimity, OR (city, FIPS 70700)
Location: 44.82921 N, 122.79167 W
Population (1990): 1491 (504 housing units)
Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 97385
Country: USA

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sublimity

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sublimity oregon

21

sublimity

4

insurance sublimity

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Sublimity

Language Translations for "sublimity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

madhështi (brilliance, brilliancy, elevation, flamboyance, flamboyancy, glory, grandeur, grandiosity, majesty, pageantry, pomp, solemnity, splendor, splendour, state). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مهابة (dignity, portliness, reverence, veneration), ‏سمو رفعة (eminence, highness, transcendence), ‏سمو (distinction, elevation, grace, superiority), ‏سناء (eminence, splendor, splendour), ‏رفعة (mount, nobleness, sublimate, superiority), ‏شخص سام. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

сюблимност, величие (eminence, greatness, largeness, magnificence, majesty, mightiness, splendor, splendour). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vznešenost (elevation, ennoblement, gentility, grandeur, magnificence, magniloquence, stateliness). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

تعالی (Ascendency, Eminence), علومقام (Sanctity), افراشتگی (Supremacy), رفعت (Elation, Height, Loom, Stature), بلندی (Altitude, Eminence, Height, Lift, Loom, Supremacy). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ylevyys (loftiness, nobleness). (various references)

   

French

  

sublimité. (various references)

   

German

  

erhabenheit (augustness, convexness, dignity, elevation, eminence, grandeur, greatness, illustriousness, loftiness, relief, solemnity, superiority, transcendence). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

υψηλότησ (highness), υψηλότητα (highness), αιθεριότησ, αιθεριότητα. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

עלאות (superiority, supremacy), ש'בות (transcendence). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fenség (highness, majesty, royalty, sublimeness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ublimitysay

   

Portuguese

  

sublimidade. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

sublimitate. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

возвышенность (down, eminence, height, lift, loftiness, rise, sublimeness), величественность (loftiness, majesty, stateliness). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

uzvišenost (nobility). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sublimidad (augustness, dignity, elevation, loftiness, transcendence). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

höghet (haughtiness, highness). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yücelik (dignity, highness, largeness, loftiness, magnanimity, nobility, sovereignty, supremacy, the sublime), haşmet (awe, majesty, stateliness). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

піднесеність (elevation, highness, loftiness). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tính uy nghi tính siêu ph m tính cao cả, tính hùng vĩ, tính cao thượng (elevation, nobility). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

arucheledd (loftiness), ardduniant, ardduniad (beauty, fame), arddunedd. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Sublimity

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

sublimitas, sublimitate, sublimitatem. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Rhyming with "Sublimity"

Words rhyming with "sublimity" (pronounced 'Sub*lim"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Sublimity

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-i-i-l-m-s-t-u-y"

-1 letter: misbuilt.

-2 letters: mistily, mustily, stibium, stimuli.

-3 letters: busily, butyls, limbus, limits, litmus, mislit, submit, subtly.

-4 letters: bitsy, blimy, built, busty, butyl, ilium, limbi, limbs, limby, limit, lusty, milts, milty, misty, mitis, musty, sibyl, silty, slimy, stimy, styli.

-5 letters: bits, bums, bust, busy, buts, buys, ibis, libs, limb, limy, list, lits, litu, lums, lust, mibs, mils.

 Words containing the letters "b-i-i-l-m-s-t-u-y"
 

+2 letters: ambitiously, summability.

 

+3 letters: assumability.

 

+4 letters: ambisexuality, measurability, mensurability, multisyllabic.

 

+5 letters: combustibility, implausibility.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern 		5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Familiar
7. Quotations: Fiction
8. Usage Frequency 		9. Cities
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Translations: Ancient 		13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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