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adjective

Profound adj.

Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a great depth; deep. "A gulf profound."

Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough; as, a profound investigation or treatise; a profound scholar; profound wisdom.

Characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervading; overmastering; far-reaching; strongly impressed; as, a profound sleep. "Profound sciatica." "Of the profound corruption of this class there can be no doubt."

Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive; as, a profound bow. "What humble gestures! What profound reverence!"

verb

Profound v. t. To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down. (Obs.)

Profound v. i. To dive deeply; to penetrate. (Obs.)

noun

Profound n.

The deep; the sea; the ocean. "God in the fathomless profound Hath all this choice commanders drowned."

An abyss.

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"Profound" Quotes from Famous Books

... that the German witnesses are imaginative and enthusiastic, and their confidence ought to be distrusted. That kind of enthusiasm is at least of a quiet sort, evidently the result of profound conviction and certainly free from any taint of worldly interest, and is by no means incompatible with the most perfect conscientiousness. If they are mistaken as to the identity of the plaintiff; if there be in truth two persons about the same age bearing ...

— Strange True Stories of Louisiana • George Washington Cable

... I know the sequel, but I can never think upon this voyage without a profound sense of pity and mystery; of the ship (once the whim of a rich blackguard) faring with her battered fineries and upon her homely errand, across the plains of ocean, and past the gorgeous scenery of dawn and ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... Matheus, "your benevolent reception, when I had the honor to be presented to you, has converted a duty into a pleasure. The natural interest," added he, with profound emotion, "with which your daughter inspires all who see her, would make me most proud ...

— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 • Various

... to object-teaching. I need not recapitulate here what I said awhile back about the superiority of the objective and experimental methods. They occupy the pupil in a way most congruous with the spontaneous interests of his age. They absorb him, and leave impressions durable and profound. Compared with the youth taught by these methods, one brought up exclusively by books carries through life a certain remoteness from reality: he stands, as it were, out of the pale, and feels that he stands so; and often suffers a kind of melancholy ...

— Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals • William James

... in the dense ignorance with regard to super-physical life which is so painfully common in the present day, the other had the inestimable advantage of the light of Theosophy. In the thought of the former we see expressed nothing but profound depression, fear and selfishness. The fact that death has approached so near has evidently evoked in the mind of the mourner the thought that it may one day come to him also, and the anticipation of this is very terrible to him; but since he does not know what it is that he fears, the clouds in which ...

— Thought-Forms • Annie Besant

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