De profundis

English

Etymology

From the Latin introit of the psalm.

Proper noun

De profundis

1. Alternative form of De Profundis
   • 1780, The Winchester Guide, page 50:

     They further engage, that the charity-boys of the priory, shall, every night forever, sing at the said chapel in the honour of the blessed Virgin Mary, the anthem Salve Regina, or Ave Regina, and after it say the psalm De profundis, with the prayer Fidelium, or Inclina, for the souls of the father and mother of the bishop, and for his soul after his decease, and for the souls of all the faithful deceased...

   • 1992, Alan Brown, Richard Turbet, Byrd Studies, →ISBN, page 30:

     Of particular interest is the fact that after Vespers the De profundis devotion was to follow immediately the performance of three polyphonic votive antiphons.

   • 2013, Babette Babich, Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science, Van Gogh’s Eyes, and God, →ISBN:

     The great Psalm, the De profundis, speaks to the human condition whether or not one is a believer but the non-believer who reads it must radically reinterpret the One who is addressed.