[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The condition or quality of being sublime; sublimity.
1660. trans. Amyraldus’ Treat. conc. Relig., I. v. 76. A matter of most divine sublimeness.
1683. Cave, Ecclesiastici, 335. Neither does … the sublimeness of his Argument make his discourse obscure.
1734. Burnet’s Own Time, Life II. 675. Mr. Nairn was … remarkable for … Strength of Reasoning and Sublimeness of Thought.
1854. Cdl. Wiseman, Fabiola, II. xxxii. 343. I cannot see any way in which the sublimeness of the act could have been enhanced.
