Meanings
- superlativesuperlative form of profound: most profound
The profoundest act of worship is to try to understand.
1994, “The Word of God”, Catherine Faber (music), performed by Echo's Children3 more examples
The capacity of sorrow belongs to our grandeur; and the loftiest of our race are those who have had the profoundest grief; because they have had the profoundest sympathies.
1850, Henry Giles, “The Moral Spirit of Byron's Genius”, in Lectures and Essays, volume 1, Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, page 149The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.
1852, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance, Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, ch. 2The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe.
1901 October, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition, Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin, page 233
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