Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Want of profit; unprofitableness; uselessness.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete Lack of profit; unprofitableness.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete Want of profit; unprofitableness.
Etymologies
- un- + profit (Wiktionary)
Examples
“How had Ralph Hamon found him, she wondered, and changed the current of her thoughts as she realised the unprofit of speculation.”
“This practice, while it was a solace and delight to herself, and in some degree enabled her to forget her misfortune in being shut out from free intercourse with her family – to them proved, directly and indirectly, highly beneficial, especially in preventing unprofit -”
“Now know we the profit of obedience, and the unprofit of disobedience, and we know in what great honour the Lord and the folk of Heaven hold thee. ”
“Newdigate mistook the size of his Vessel egregiously when he agreed to take 54 barrels of Rice and 9 hhds of Sugar more than she could carry, for we enter'd into a Charter Party, which I was obliged to abide by. to be sure the whole has turned out an unprofit - able affair, herewith is a State of the account, Ballance to your Credit being only £44: 1 19 Stg. Permit me dear sir, once more to recommend your sending a good parcell of Brown and White Spermaceti Oil here early next fall.”
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