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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of the sublime in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of the sublime in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of the sublime in a Sentence

  1. Shah Asad Rizvi:

    Transcend the terrestrial, surpass the celestial, from nature’s hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance

  2. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.:

    a punctilio so sublime

  3. Wieland:

    Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it, which is always a source of pleasure to sensible people.

  4. Francis of Assisi:

    Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

  5. Socrates, In "Apology," sct. 21, by Plato.:

    I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

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