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- noun Plural form of
profundity .
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Examples
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As soon as one attempts to deal with the philosophic justification of what is represented by the programme of the Canada Council, one is involved in profundities which cannot be easily or quickly stated.
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Given such questionable profundities, Adel says that he doesn't mind that his children's studies are disrupted.
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Don't expect John Hegley-esque profundities; for all his deliberately baroque flourishes, Key often seems to do to poetry what Tommy Cooper did to magic, and with comparably hilarious results.
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Pay day Exacta mundo till she burned your brow red with profundities ...
What Quenapril Willed To The Follicle Dennis Mahagin 2011
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In all such things he saw the glimmering profundities of sex, acknowledged their lure, and accepted them as incomprehensible.
Chapter XV 2010
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Given such questionable profundities, Adel says that he doesn't mind that his children's studies are disrupted.
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One thing that worries me — — and I cannot say this is new, as it has worried me for years, since I started the blog over at Blogger (and probably Usenet before that, back to '94), probably: All of this networking and reporting on the ups and downs on my day-to-day life, the ongoing, ceaseless catalog of profundities and the mundane, it changes that which it records.
"You'll hear me cry. I'll shake you from your sleep." greygirlbeast 2009
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Given such questionable profundities, Adel says that he doesn't mind that his children's studies are disrupted.
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She busts out with some spoken word in the spirit of Michael Franti and Ani DiFranco offering profundities such as ... having the humility to admit that we're part of the problem and we can all be part of the solution.
Rev. Roger Wolsey: "Storydwelling" - A Review of Heatherlyn's New Album Rev. Roger Wolsey 2011
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This matches other profundities: that he is post-national, or post-racial.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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