All 7 Uses

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The Time Machine
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a profound sense of desertion and despair
Chpt 5 *

profound = intense
But to come to a stop involved the jamming of myself, molecule by molecule, into whatever lay in my way; meant bringing my atoms into such intimate contact with those of the obstacle that a profound chemical reaction—possibly a far-reaching explosion—would result, and blow myself and my apparatus out of all possible dimensions—into the Unknown.†
Chpt 3
As I went with them the memory of my confident anticipations of a profoundly grave and intellectual posterity came, with irresistible merriment, to my mind.†
Chpt 4
And I shall have to tell you later that even the processes of putrefaction and decay had been profoundly affected by these changes.†
Chpt 4
I could not find it at first; but, after a time in the profound obscurity, I came upon one of those round well-like openings of which I have told you, half closed by a fallen pillar.†
Chpt 5
What had happened to the Under-grounders I did not yet suspect; but from what I had seen of the Morlocks—that, by the by, was the name by which these creatures were called—I could imagine that the modification of the human type was even far more profound than among the "Eloi," the beautiful race that I already knew.†
Chpt 5
Everything save that little disk above was profoundly dark, and when I looked up again Weena had disappeared.†
Chpt 6

Definitions:

(1) (profound as in: profound idea)
deep or far-reaching in intellect or consequence
(2) (profound as in: profound sadness)
of greatest intensity or emotional depth
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)