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proˈfoundly, adv.
[f. profound a. + -ly2.]
In a profound manner or degree; deeply.
1. To or at a great depth or distance from the surface. Also fig.
c1407Lydg. Reson & Sens. 5693 Whan I had the lettres rad, Which in the stonys..Wer profoundely and depe y-grave. c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. xlvii. 118 Þe more profoundly þat a man goþ dovn into himself and waxiþ vile to himself, þe hyer he stieþ up to god. 1840Browning Sordello vi. 360 My soul o'ertops Each height,—than every depth profoundlier drops. 1857Dunglison Med. Lex., Profundus,..a name given to..parts, which are seated profoundly as regards others. 1871R. Ellis Catullus xvii. 11 Where..descends most profoundly the bottom.
b. So as to come from or sink to a great depth; with a deep breath (as in sighing) or inclination (as in bowing). Sometimes with mixture of sense 3.
1480Caxton Ovid's Met. xi. xix, She wayled & sighed perfoundly. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. iv. ii. 83 Why sigh you so profoundly?..tell me sweet Vnckle, what's the matter? 1700Dryden Cinyras & Myrrha 184 The virgin started at her father's name, And sigh'd profoundly. a1811Blake Poet. Wks. (1905) 231 Then,..bowing profoundly, he said: ‘A great wig’.
2. With intellectual depth; with great insight or penetration into a subject; very learnedly.
With learned, wise, etc., this nearly coincides with sense 3.
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xvi. 73 He preched mare profoundely of Haly Writte þan oþer didd. 1561Godly Q. Hester (1873) 15 In learninge and litterature, profoundely seene. 1693Apol. Clergy Scot. 39 This is profoundly wise. 1711Steele Spect. No. 157 ⁋7 A Person..profoundly learned in Horse-flesh. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 63/2 Those who have not studied very profoundly.
3. Intensely, extremely, thoroughly, very greatly; to a depth of quality, state, or degree.
1502W. Atkynson tr. De Imitatione iii. xv. 210 Howe profoundely ought I to submytte me to thy hydde & depe iugementis. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 167 b, Yf the herte be profoundly meke. 1654H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 105 He..wanted money the sinews of war, his Exchequer being profoundly dry. 1719De Foe Crusoe (1840) II. ix. 209 They found all..as profoundly secure as sleep..could make them. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vii. II. 175 Profoundly ignorant of the English constitution. 1871Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) II. xi. 241 A poet and a profoundly religious man. 1872Yeats Growth Comm. 32 The..limits were kept profoundly secret. |