Borrowed from Latin <span class="searchmatch">de</span> <span class="searchmatch">profundis</span> (“from the depths”). <span class="searchmatch">de</span> <span class="searchmatch">profundis</span> (not comparable) From deep feelings of misery or despair. 1838, Thomas Carlyle, The...
on: <span class="searchmatch">De</span> <span class="searchmatch">Profundis</span> Wikipedia <span class="searchmatch">De</span> <span class="searchmatch">profundis</span> <span class="searchmatch">de</span> <span class="searchmatch">profundis</span> From Middle English <span class="searchmatch">De</span> <span class="searchmatch">Profundis</span>, <span class="searchmatch">De</span> <span class="searchmatch">profundis</span>, deprofundis, deprovundis, from Latin <span class="searchmatch">dē</span> <span class="searchmatch">profundīs</span> (“out...
From the Latin introit of the psalm. <span class="searchmatch">De</span> <span class="searchmatch">profundis</span> Alternative form of <span class="searchmatch">De</span> <span class="searchmatch">Profundis</span>. 1780, The Winchester Guide, page 50: They further engage, that the...
suggestresses) (rare) A woman who suggests. 1845, Thomas <span class="searchmatch">De</span> Quincey, Suspiria <span class="searchmatch">de</span> <span class="searchmatch">Profundis</span>: Being a Sequel to the Confessions of an English Opium-eater:...
Gerry McNamara, “Life for Art's Sake”, in Gay Community News, page 17: <span class="searchmatch">De</span> <span class="searchmatch">Profundis</span> is full of religiosity, whether it be Christocentric aesthetics, moral...
[proˈfun̪.d̪um] profundum n (genitive <span class="searchmatch">profundī</span>); second declension abyss, depths Psalm 130, verses 1-2: <span class="searchmatch">De</span> <span class="searchmatch">profundis</span> clamavi ad te, Domine; Domine, exaudi...
quaffer, his glasse should bee alway brim-full, and he would vp with it <span class="searchmatch">de</span> <span class="searchmatch">profundis</span>; his vsuall draught was a large pint & a halfe: and hauing drunke liberally...
an intensifier; by God. 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “<span class="searchmatch">De</span> <span class="searchmatch">Profundis</span>”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg...
one's heart, (literally "from the depths") 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Psalms 129.1 → Latin: <span class="searchmatch">de</span> <span class="searchmatch">profundis</span> → Greek: εκ βαθέων (ek vathéon) (learned)...
wilfulnesses and, it might be, errors. 1897 January–March, Oscar Wilde, <span class="searchmatch">De</span> <span class="searchmatch">Profundis</span>, New York, N.Y., London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons; The Knickerbocker Press...