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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of profit.

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profit +‎ -eth

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Examples

  • What profiteth a producer if he gains the Tony but loses the audience?

    Journey’s End (The Boomer Blog) 2007

  • And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

    Three Endings Susan Palwick 2009

  • Thus, in any case, nothing profiteth him but that he be mindful of Allah and occupy himself with gaining his livelihood in this world and securing his place in the next.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Almighty; for He indeed is the only one who harmeth or profiteth.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Death be damned they profiteth from death of man moire conquering wind war monger be cremation of care sociopaths truly be

    Think Progress » ABA On Bush Nominee: ‘Insulated,’ ‘Very Stubborn,’ and ‘Sanctimonious’ 2006

  • The Koranic are: (1) offer and acceptance and (2) if the thing sold be a white slave, by whom one profiteth, all possible endeavour to convert him to Al – Islam; and (3) to abstain from usury; the traditional are: making void329 and option before not after separating, according to his saying

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Law profiteth him who practiseth it: so love thy brother, if he be of this quality and do not cast him off, even if thou see in him that which irketh thee, for a friend is not I like a wife, whom one can divorce and re-marry: nay, his heart is like glass: once broken, it may not be mended.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Gharib cried, “O dog of the Persians, fire is not worshipful, for that it is harmful and profiteth not save in cooking food.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • But it is so plain, that every man profiteth in that, he most intendeth, that it needeth not to be stood upon.

    The Essays 2007

  • And then a learned doctor got up into a pulpit which was placed there, and preached a sermon from the text, ‘Though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.’

    A Child's History of England 2007

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