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 ?
- Ah! why , uninjured and unprofited,
References
- “unprofited”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.