profoundly
/pɹəˈfaʊndli/ adverb C1- With depth, meaningfully. · He thought and wrote profoundly.
- Very importantly. · More profoundly, it has shaken our most fundamental assumptions.
- Deeply; very; strongly or forcefully. · From his childhood, she was profoundly troubled.
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“There is not a hope,” replied Faria, shaking his head, “but no matter; God wills it that man whom he has created, and in whose heart he has so profoundly rooted the love of life, should do all in his power to preserve that existence, which, however painful it may be, is yet always so dear.”
“I am profoundly ignorant of all these stock-jobbing intrigues.”
Well, the poison brings on a cough, the cough an inflammation of the lungs, or some other complaint catalogued in the book of science, which, however, by no means precludes it from being decidedly mortal; and if it were not, would be sure to become so, thanks to the remedies applied by foolish doctors, who are generally bad chemists, and which will act in favor of or against the malady, as you please; and then there is a human being killed according to all the rules of art and skill, and of whom justice learns nothing, as was said by a terrible chemist of my acquaintance, the worthy Abbé Adelmonte of Taormina, in Sicily, who has studied these national phenomena very profoundly.”
I am profoundly uncertain about how to reintegrate into a society driven by schedules, digital notifications, and endless obligations.
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