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Definition of Deepfelt
1. profoundly believed [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deepfelt
Literary usage of Deepfelt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands: In the South Pacific Ocean by William Mariner, John Joseph Martin (1818)
"... but, in spite of this injunction, they occasionally could not restrain their
grief, beating their breasts with every mark of deepfelt anguish. ..."
2. The British poets, including translations by British poets (1822)
"should, through My Demophon arrive at manhood's years ; *" — ' the dusky mantle
drew To hide her deepfelt anguish from their view. ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1851)
"And no one can read these effusions of deepfelt virtuous affection without emotions
of a happy tendency. ..."
4. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1891)
"The hope of seeing you, my dear father, again is a deepfelt one. ' . CAMP CROMPOND,
3d of October, 1782. We have been continually on the march since I last ..."
5. The History of North America by Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe (1904)
"... they have only to pray that their return to their own country may be facilitated;
and they will leave France with the most deepfelt regret, that neither ..."
6. Century Readings for a Course in English Literature by James Francis Augustine Pyre, Karl Young (1910)
"*o Mysterious round ! what skill, what force divine, deepfelt, in these appear!
a simple train, Yet so delightful mixed, with such kind art, Such beauty and ..."
7. Giotto and Some of His Followers by Osvald Sirén (1917)
"... but a restful and deepfelt sense of the spell of the presence of a strong
spiritual power. These people do not appear as in life or on the stage, ..."
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