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Definition of Profoundest
1. profound [adj] - See also: profound
Lexicographical Neighbors of Profoundest
Literary usage of Profoundest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... was so naturally and simply said one felt it was his profoundest conviction.
It was a sacred idea—a divine reality.—WATERSON, ROBERT C., 1882, ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1830)
"not that of the profoundest geologists. M. de Humboldt and M. de Reuss agree to
regard the schists of (Eningen as belonging to an ancient and regular ..."
3. The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States by United States Dept. of State, Francis Wharton, John Bassett Moore (1889)
"... myself authorized to act in consequence, unless I receive new orders to the
contrary. I have the honor to be, with the profoundest respect, etc., ..."
4. The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life by Hannah More (1827)
"... by its profoundest and most sagacious readers. And the longer and more
attentively such persons have studied it, the higher has their estimation risen. ..."
5. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1856)
"... superseded by the new and better covenant of the Christian dispensation, in
a connected chain of argument, evincing the profoundest knowledge of both. ..."
6. Proceedings by National Baptist Educational Convention (1872)
"highest, and profoundest, and richest of all human thinking and human feeling,
and therefore that which I would like to suggest as to the paper would be to ..."
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