All 4 Uses of
profound
in
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Hence it came about that I concealed my pleasures; and that when I reached years of reflection, and began to look round me and take stock of my progress and position in the world, I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life.†
p. 82..8
- Though so profound a double-dealer, I was in no sense a hypocrite; both sides of me were in dead earnest; I was no more myself when I laid aside restraint and plunged in shame, than when I laboured, in the eye of day, at the furtherance of knowledge or the relief of sorrow and suffering.†
p. 83..3
- But the temptation of a discovery so singular and profound, at last overcame the suggestions of alarm.†
p. 86..1 *
- profound slumber
p. 104..4 *profound = intense (deep)
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