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Deepness

noun
1.
The intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas.  Synonyms: astuteness, depth, profoundness, profundity.
2.
The quality of being physically deep.  Synonyms: profoundness, profundity.
3.
The extent downward or backward or inward.  Synonym: depth.  "Depth of a shelf" , "Depth of a closet"
4.
A low pitch that is loud and voluminous.





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"Deepness" Quotes from Famous Books



... Eastern Church stick to their Christian ideal of saintliness. Their interpretation of the Christian spirit may be the best and truest. Yet the ideal must become flesh. Let them not be proud of their not having pride, and exclusive because God chose them to understand the bottomless deepness of the esoteric Christianity. By pride towards the proud and by exclusiveness they may spoil and darken their ideals ...
— The Agony of the Church (1917) • Nikolaj Velimirovic
... puzzled him. As her story progressed, he solved the puzzle. She had the strength to carry out a purpose that might further her own personal interests; but not the will to endure sacrifice for the sake of another. Her sister was larger and possessed a reserve that might have been mistaken for deepness. He felt that she was hardly in sympathy with the motives of the younger, more ...
— Jane Cable • George Barr McCutcheon
... at present too old for fox-hunting, to keep himself in action, has disposed of his beagles and got a pack of Stop- hounds. What these want in speed, he endeavours to make amends for by the deepness of their mouths and the variety of their notes, which are suited in such manner to each other, that the whole cry makes up a complete concert. He is so nice in this particular, that a gentleman having made him a present of a very fine hound ...
— The Coverley Papers • Various
... gifted with, descends In th' everlasting Justice as low down, As eye doth in the sea; which though it mark The bottom from the shore, in the wide main Discerns it not; and ne'ertheless it is, But hidden through its deepness. Light is none, Save that which cometh from the pure serene Of ne'er disturbed ether: for the rest, 'Tis darkness all, or shadow of the flesh, Or else its poison. Here confess reveal'd That covert, which hath hidden from thy ...
— The Divine Comedy • Dante
... Clarence Dock at 10 P.M., I went below and managed to get a seat on one end of the bench, where I spent the night in sleepless misery. The Irish bestowed themselves about the floor as they best could, for there was no light, and very soon the Morphean deepness of their breathing gave token ...
— Views a-foot • J. Bayard Taylor


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