Both Uses of
profound
in
Ethan Frome
- I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Gow had hinted, the profound accumulated cold of many Starkfield winters.†
Chpt Open *
- The stillness was so profound that he heard a little animal twittering somewhere near by under the snow.
Chpt 9 *profound = intense
Definitions:
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(profound as in: profound sadness) of greatest intensity or emotional depth
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(profound as in: profound idea) deep or far-reaching in intellect or consequence