proficuous

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And with a good reason, for the fact of its being perfunctory goes to say pointedly that the master for whom it is performed is exalted above the vulgar need of actually proficuous service on the part of his servants.

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  • And with a good reason, for the fact of its being perfunctory goes to say pointedly that the master for whom it is performed is exalted above the vulgar need of actually proficuous service on the part of his servants. —  Theory of the Leisure Class
 

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  1. = Spanish profícuo = Portuguese Italian proficuo, from Late Latin proficuus, advantageous, beneficial, from Latin proficere, advance, go forward: see proficient.
 

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