adv. [f. SUBLIME a. + -LY2.]

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  † 1.  Aloft; highly; at or to a height. Obs.

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a. 1598.  Rollock, Passion, xli. (1616), 404. When thus way by checking, Hee hath beaten downe the imaginations, reasonings, and cogitations that sublimely rose out of the minde.

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1648.  Boyle, Motives Love of God, § 14. 89. His soveraign Tranquillity is so sublimely plac’d, that ’tis above the reach of all Disquieting Impressions.

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  2.  With sublimity of form, thought, expression, style; in a lofty or exalted manner. Also ironical.

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1693.  Congreve, in Dryden’s Juvenal (1697), 294. Verse so sublimely good, no Voice can wrong.

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1700.  Lucius Brit., Death Dryden, 55. His Works are all sublimely Great.

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1735.  Pope, Prol. Sat., 187. Whose fustian’s so sublimely bad, It is not Poetry, but prose run mad.

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1816.  T. L. Peacock, Headlong Hall, vii. The sublimely romantic pass of Aberglaslynn.

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1859.  Geo. Eliot, Adam Bede, xvii. There are … few sublimely beautiful women.

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1884.  Macm. Mag., Oct., 443/1. Of this difficulty our Saxon-loving friends … are sublimely unconscious.

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