unprofited

English

Etymology

Adjective

unprofited (comparative more unprofited, superlative most unprofited)

profitless
- c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
  Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds rather than make unprofited return.
- 1797-1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Destiny of Nations
  Ah! why , uninjured and unprofited,
  Should multitudes against their brethren rush ?

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unprofited”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)