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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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