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profundify

verb /pɹəˈfʌndɪfaɪ/

  1. To make profound; to make a concept unnecessarily complicated.

    But where's the use of invoking the Muses, when they are provoked by droppings of inspiration from a stone, in which the measure and the meaning are most happily profundified?

Where it comes from

Latin profundus (“profound”) + -ify. Post-19th-century uses popularized by American humorist James Boren (1925–2010).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry profundify (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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