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de profundis

[ dey proh-foon-dis ]

Latin.
  1. out of the depths (of sorrow, despair, etc.).


de profundis

/ deɪ prɒˈfʊndɪs /

adverb

  1. out of the depths of misery or dejection
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of de profundis1

from the first words of Psalm 130
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Example Sentences

Daniil Trifonov, a welcome fixture at David Geffen Hall, will join for a program of Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto, as well as selections from Sibelius’s “Lemminkäinen Suite” and Raminta Šerkšnytė’s “De Profundis,” from 1998.

In his misery Wilde eventually penned a many-paged cri de coeur to Douglas, “De Profundis,” which bitterly retraced the history of their stormy relationship.

With that he was able to complete “De Profundis,” a lengthy letter to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, that included some more optimistic messages.

The program began with a darkly soulful piece for strings, “De Profundis,” by Grazinyte-Tyla’s fellow Lithuanian, Raminta Serksynte, that suited these intense times.

The Christmas Symphony had its longueurs, but Penderecki was a very devotional man, and the St Luke Passion he completed in 1966 suggested that his focus could be sharpened by the constraints of text – as the devotional works that followed, Canticum Canticorum Salomonis, Polish Requiem and De Profundis, proved.

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