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Webster 1913 Edition


Disprofit

Dis-prof′it

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Noun.
Loss; damage.
Foxe.

Dis-prof′it

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Verb.
I.
&
I.
To be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit.
[Obs. or Archaic]
Bale.

Webster 1828 Edition


Disprofit

DISPROFIT

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Noun.
[dis and profit.] Loss; detriment; damage. [Little used.]

Definition 2024


disprofit

disprofit

English

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete) To be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit.

Noun

disprofit

  1. Loss; damage.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Foxe to this entry?)
    • (Can we date this quote?), Goold Brown, The Grammar of English Grammars:
      Adjectives signifying profit or disprofit, likeness or unlikeness govern the dative.