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English
Etymology
From un- + profited.
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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :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 ?
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