dearly vs profoundly

dearly

adv
  • In a dear or precious manner. 

  • In a dear or expensive manner. 

  • At great expense. 

profoundly

adv
  • With depth, meaningfully. 

  • Very importantly. 

  • Deeply; very; strongly or forcefully. 

How often have the words dearly and profoundly occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )