A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Profundité, n. [Late ME and e.m.E. profundite (1432–50), -yte, profoundyte (1508), OF profundité (1406 in Wartburg), mod. F. profondité, late L. profunditās depth, immensity, f. profundus Profound adj.] The quality of being profound, in senses 2 and 2 b of Profound adj. —1490 Irland Mir. I 16/23.
The v [book] spekis … of the presciens devin and predestinacioun in gret profundite Ib. II 146/30.
Sanct Paule knawand the gret profundite of this mater sais with admiracioun ‘O altitudo … !'
