profect

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noun

Profit.

OriginLatin profectus →
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Meanings

nounprofect (plural profects)

plural profects

  1. obsoleteProfit.

    Henry of Surrey was never for singular profect (profit) corrupted.

    1816, The Edinburgh Review, volume 27
verbprofect (third-person singular simple present profects, present participle profecting, simple past and past participle profected)

present singular third person profects · participle present profecting · participle past profected · past profected

  1. obsoleteTo benefit, profit, advance.

    And that I have thowght that pardons doth profect them that be ded. And I have dowbted whether they profect them that be on lyef or not.

    Published in 1858, Recantation of Thomas Garrard, The Church Historians of England

Origin

  1. Latinprofectus
  2. Englishprofect

From Latin profectus. Doublet of profit.

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