disprofit

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ profit

Verb

disprofit (third-person singular simple present disprofits, present participle disprofiting, simple past and past participle disprofited)

1. (obsolete) To be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit.

Noun

disprofit

1. Loss; damage.
   • 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:

     And whereas he sought profit, he fell into double disprofit, that neither with good men he could avoid secret shame

   • 1851, Goold Brown, The Grammar of English Grammars‎^[1]:

     Adjectives signifying profit or disprofit, likeness or unlikeness govern the dative.