profit
noun
Often profits.
unprofited
-
a word derived from
profit.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
If from deserted maid, Hermione, Whose charms were withering in the fallow wane Of an unprofited life, this speech forlorn Had seem'd to ring the knell of her young hopes.
From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by Roby, John
Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds, Rather than make unprofited return.
From Twelfth Night; or What You Will by Shakespeare, William
Now it had slipped away unprofited by, he saw what that opportunity would have meant for him.
From The Dust of Conflict by Bindloss, Harold
Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds Rather than make unprofited return.
From Twelfth Night by Shakespeare, William
How deeply do we blame ourselves for occasions of benefit lost, and opportunities unprofited by; and how unceasingly, through after-life, the memory of the departed recurs to us!
From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Lever, Charles James
