disprofit
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]disprofit (third-person singular simple present disprofits, present participle disprofiting, simple past and past participle disprofited)
- (obsolete) To be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit.
Noun
[edit]disprofit
- Loss; damage.
- 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:
- And whereas he sought profit, he fell into double disprofit, that neither with good men he could avoid secret shame
- 1851, Goold Brown, The Grammar of English Grammars[1]:
- Adjectives signifying profit or disprofit, likeness or unlikeness govern the dative.