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Depth   /dɛpθ/   Listen
Depth

noun
1.
The extent downward or backward or inward.  Synonym: deepness.  "Depth of a shelf" , "Depth of a closet"
2.
Degree of psychological or intellectual profundity.
3.
(usually plural) the deepest and most remote part.  "Signals received from the depths of space"
4.
(usually plural) a low moral state.
5.
The intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas.  Synonyms: astuteness, deepness, profoundness, profundity.
6.
The attribute or quality of being deep, strong, or intense.  "The depth of his sighs," , "The depth of his emotion"



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"Depth" Quotes from Famous Books



... of this upon the dominant race was to fix in their minds, with the strength of an absorbing passion, the idea of their own innate and unimpeachable superiority, of the unalterable inferiority of the slave-race, of the infinite distance between the two, and of the depth of debasement implied by placing the two races, in any respect, on the same level. The Southern mind had no antipathy to the negro in a menial or servile relation. On the contrary, it was generally kind and considerate of him, as such. It regarded him almost precisely as other people look upon ...
— Bricks Without Straw • Albion W. Tourgee
... bombastic description, gorgeous colour were preferred to quiet power. Alexandrian learning, already too much in evidence in the Augustan age, becomes more prominent and more oppressive. For men of second-rate talent it served to give their work a spurious air of depth and originality to which it was not entitled. The necessity of patronage engendered a fulsome flattery, while the false tone of the schools of rhetoric,[82] aided perhaps by the influence of the Stoical training so fashionable at Rome, led to a marvellous conceit ...
— Post-Augustan Poetry - From Seneca to Juvenal • H.E. Butler
... servants have done, and in this will trouble our Lord no more. We know not the depth of the wisdom of thee, our Prince. Who could have thought, that had been ruled by his reason, that so much sweet as we do now enjoy should have come out of those bitter trials wherewith we were tried at the first! But, Lord, let light go before, and let love come after: ...
— The Holy War • John Bunyan
... agreed to create a more available harbor, and to establish dock lines, not less than 500 feet apart, and in three years to dredge the river to a depth of 25 feet for five miles back ...
— The Harris-Ingram Experiment • Charles E. Bolton
... shearing to the left. Before again taking the water the torpedo hit the ship well aft on the port side about frame 163 and above the water line. Almost immediately after the explosion of the torpedo the depth charges, located on the stern and ready for firing, exploded. There were two distinct explosions in quick ...
— World's War Events, Vol. II • Various


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