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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In a profound manner; deeply; with deep penetration; with deep knowledge or insight; thoroughly; extremely; very.

Wiktionary

  1. adv. manner With depth, meaningfully.
  2. adv. evaluative Very importantly.
  3. adv. degree Deeply; very.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adv. In a profound manner.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adv. to a great depth psychologically

Etymologies

  1. profound +‎ -ly (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Why is it that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about God in a way that veers so profoundly from the thinking of our ancestors?”

    The Case for God by Karen Armstrong: Book summary

  • “Where the authors differ most profoundly is in the overall mood their work creates.”

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  • “We are not going to stop the Israelis, just as we do not stop the Chinese from suppressing dissidents in profoundly unfair ways.”

    Matthew Yglesias » Means and Ends

  • “Dissidents are suppressed in profoundly unfair ways in every country on earth.”

    Matthew Yglesias » Means and Ends

  • “One of the rare things that bothered me, but it did so profoundly, is the resolution of the main plot and the ending.”

    Scott Lynch - The Lies of Locke Lamora (Book Review)

  • “He grew up in profoundly rural America and was graduating from flight school about the time of Pearl Harbor.”

    Matthew Yglesias » Age and the War

  • “Their rigorous versions of management education differ profoundly from the one that Stewart lampoons.”

    Letters to the Editor

  • “The ability to entertain possibilities that differ profoundly from the prevailing theories of the day is the hallmark of all the great scientific revolutionaries, including Darwin.”

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  • “Young athletes remain profoundly influenced by the culture and by their role models — you too, Charles Barkley, who also happens to use ephedrine.”

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  • “The different choice of object resulted in profoundly different professional and scholarly models: while Jones reads the "foreign" character as an abstruse object of scholastic knowledge whose end is its own increase, Gilchrist reads it as a more easily decodable object of technical, communicable knowledge whose end is not simply functionality, but also economic possibilities both for student and for instructor.”

    A Teleology of Letters; or, From a

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