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Definition of Profundities
1. profundity [n] - See also: profundity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Profundities
Literary usage of Profundities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Minister as Shepherd by Charles Edward Jefferson (1912)
"There are two kinds of profundities, book profundities and everyday profundities.
... These are the profundities of the books, but the profundities of ..."
2. The Presbyterian Magazine edited by Cortlandt Van Rensselaer (1854)
"We see in these " profundities," however, nothing more than what any literary
charlatan might display after roving over the world 10 or 20 years, ..."
3. The Phrenological Journal and Miscellany (1824)
"... insult, and scandal to this enlightened age;* and that this the adjudication
and declaration of your profundities shall be received and respected, ..."
4. European Dramatists by Archibald Henderson (1913)
"There were depths, profundities in Strindberg's nature, both as man and artist,
which called to answering depths, profundities in human consciousness. ..."
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