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Definition of Profounds
1. profound [n] - See also: profound
Lexicographical Neighbors of Profounds
Literary usage of Profounds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1899)
"... that the condition undoubtedly existed apart from the epileptic taint, in
which latter class of cases amnesia, however, is apt to be more profounds. BF. ..."
2. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"Ne'er was given Thee to walk the ways of Heaven; Vain the vision, Fate's derision,
Thee that raps to realms elysian, Fathomless profounds are thine"— Quired ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"And there might be seen in the solitude of their own abstractions, men with minds
that had sounded the profounds of science, and seemingly undisturbed by ..."
4. Southern Literary Messenger (1849)
"The profounds of that first great passion lay serenely enough ; the zephyrs of
the castle of Love could not trouble them. So he thought—if he thought at ..."
5. The History of Early English Literature: Being the History of English Poetry by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1905)
"... swiftly is it working Water to a fortress-wall I Now the ways are dry ;
Ashen-gray the army-paths, opened out the main, Old profounds of sea; ..."
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