- Deep of night
- Deep Deep, n.
1. That which is deep, especially deep water, as the sea or
ocean; an abyss; a great depth.
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Courage from the deeps of knowledge springs. --Cowley. [1913 Webster]
The hollow deep of hell resounded. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Blue Neptune storms, the bellowing deeps resound. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
2. That which is profound, not easily fathomed, or incomprehensible; a moral or spiritual depth or abyss. [1913 Webster]
Thy judgments are a great deep. --Ps. xxxvi. 6. [1913 Webster]
{Deep of night}, the most quiet or profound part of night; dead of night. [1913 Webster]
The deep of night is crept upon our talk. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.