disprofit

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verb

To be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit.

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Meanings

verbdisprofit (third-person singular simple present disprofits, present participle disprofiting, simple past and past participle disprofited)

present singular third person disprofits · participle present disprofiting · participle past disprofited · past disprofited

  1. obsoleteTo be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit.
noun
  1. Loss; damage.

    Adjectives signifying profit or disprofit, likeness or unlikeness govern the dative.

    1851, Goold Brown, The Grammar of English Grammars
    1 more example

    And whereas he sought profit, he fell into double disprofit, that neither with good men he could avoid secret shame

    1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC

Origin

From dis- + profit.

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Chicago

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