Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Loss; detriment; damage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Loss; damage.
- verb Obs. or Archaic To be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit
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Examples
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Nay, this may so swell the disprofit side of his account, that many an enterprise of biography, otherwise promising, shall require to be renounced.
Paras. 1-24 1909
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He will compute well what profit is in it, and what disprofit; under which latter head this of offending any of his fellow-creatures will surely not be forgotten.
Paras. 1-24 1909
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Where day and night remembering the name of Jesu, he commended him to God, praying that the prison should not disprofit him, but that he might have it for wilderness and penance.
The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900
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Of the whole two thousand there are not, now half a score, and these mostly blighted in the bud by royal Veto, that will profit or disprofit us.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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