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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
profit .
Etymologies
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Examples
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What profiteth a producer if he gains the Tony but loses the audience?
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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
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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.
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Almighty; for He indeed is the only one who harmeth or profiteth.
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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
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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
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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.
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Gharib cried, “O dog of the Persians, fire is not worshipful, for that it is harmful and profiteth not save in cooking food.”
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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
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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.’
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