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Profoundly

Profoundly \Pro*found"ly\, adv. In a profound manner.

Why sigh you so profoundly?
--Shak.

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profoundly

adv. 1 (context manner English) With depth, meaningfully. 2 (context evaluative English) Very importantly. 3 (context degree English) deeply; very.

WordNet
profoundly

adv. to a great depth psychologically; "They felt the loss deeply" [syn: deeply]

Usage examples of "profoundly".

Even older than the lotus and the rose, and more profoundly woven into the very fabric of the universe, is the archetypal form of the Spiral.

Thirdly, the doctrine of a judicial metempsychosis was most profoundly rooted in the popular faith, as a strict verity, throughout the great East, ages before the time of Plato, and was familiarly known throughout Greece in his time.

It was in this written reporting that many test pilots failed, and Pope was profoundly impressed by the meticulous care with which Randy Claggett wrote his reports.

For the aid so freely given him in the writing of this book and the obtaining of information on seamanship, gunnery, ship-design and the Gangway Pendulum, the author is profoundly grateful to Anna Mosser Roberts Booth Tarkington R.

Mussolini-Hitler crime of overrunning Greece, and our effort to stand against tyranny and save what we could from its claws, appealed profoundly to the people of the United States, and above all to the great man who led them.

No doubt it was difficult for one of immense patristic and theological learning, who was well versed in the historical aspect of the affair as well as profoundly conscious of the reality of his own episcopal commission, to enter the lists with a son of his old friend.

Such a discipline has the potential to be profoundly contemplative as well as rigorously scientific, and I believe it is the most promising, pluralistic mode of inquiry for discovering deep truths concerning consciousness and its role in the natural world.

Japan seemed for the moment to be overawed by the evident prospect of a prolonged world war, and, anxiously watching Russia and the United States, meditated profoundly what it would be wise and profitable to do.

At the hospital, his X ray had been misread and the three of us were sent home with reassurances, but Reamy and I knew so profoundly that something was wrong with our listless whispering child that we returned.

I have never reperused the sheets whereon sleep the words which moved me so profoundly.

My experience of last year shows me that in spite of aberrations in some parts of India, the country was entirely under control that the influence of Satyagraha was profoundly for its good and that where violence did break out there were local causes that directly contributed to it.

No less important, the new scholasticism showed that the great authorities of the past sometimes disagreed and disagreed profoundly.

Amarante Cordova and Carolina, and Eusebio Lavadie and Ladd Devine and Horsethief Shorty, trying to put together the pieces of what worried him so profoundly.

Boito thinks like a symphonist, and his purpose is profoundly poetical, but its appreciation asks more than the ordinary opera-goer is willing or able to give.

Profoundly perplexed, Theos ascended the steps before him, his mind anxiously revolving all the strange adventures of the night, while a dim sense of some unspeakable, coming calamity brooded darkly upon him.