disprofess
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]disprofess (third-person singular simple present disprofesses, present participle disprofessing, simple past and past participle disprofessed)
- (obsolete, rare) To give up, renounce.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- His armes, which he had vowed to disprofesse, / She gathered vp and did about him dresse [...].