profit
noun
Often profits.
unprofited
-
a word derived from
profit.
Example Sentences
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Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds, Rather than make unprofited return.
From Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Now it had slipped away unprofited by, he saw what that opportunity would have meant for him.
From The Dust of Conflict by Harold Bindloss
My dear Glencore, the luckiest fellow that ever lived, were he only to cast a look back on opportunities neglected, and conjunctures unprofited by, would be sure to be miserable.
From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever
Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds Rather than make unprofited return.
From Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
And though I be reckoned of many a dreamer of dreams, he shall not, I think, go unprofited, who can rightly 'read my rede.'
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
