Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DEEP'NESS
DEEP'NESS, n.
- Depth; remoteness from the surface in a descending line; interior distance from the surface; profundity. And forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth. – Matt. xiii.
- Craft; insidiousness. [Unusual.]
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