disprofess

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verb

To give up, renounce.

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Meanings

verbdisprofess (third-person singular simple present disprofesses, present participle disprofessing, simple past and past participle disprofessed)

present singular third person disprofesses · participle present disprofessing · participle past disprofessed · past disprofessed

  1. obsoleterareTo give up, renounce.

    His armes, which he had vowed to disprofesse, / She gathered vp and did about him dresse [...].

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

From dis- + profess.

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APA

disprofess. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disprofess

MLA

“disprofess.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disprofess. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “disprofess,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disprofess.

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