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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
profit .
Etymologies
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Examples
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For thy heart also convicts thee, that in vain thou multipliest words: thy conscience rightly judges that in thy prayers thou profitest nought.
Honour the image of God, by being in agreement with all men Argent 2006
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Seeing then that thou profitest neither thine hearer, nor thyself, nor him that is accused, and dost but point thy sword at thine own self, even from such considerations do thou learn more soberness.
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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If thou recollectest this part of the conversation, and how like fools we looked at one another; how much it put us out of conceit with ourselves, and made us fear her, when we found our conversation thus excluded from the very character which our vanity had made us think unquestionably ours; and if thou profitest properly by the recollection; thou wilt be of my mind, that there is not so much wit in wickedness as we had flattered ourselves there was.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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"A _mere_ Roman, hang-dog!" answered Catiline, "but thou knowest thine opportunity, and profitest by it! so let it pass!
The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2) Henry William Herbert 1832
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