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unˈprofitably, adv.
(un-1 11.)
1395Purvey Remonstr. (1851) 25 The comoun puple is..vnprofitabli ocupied. c1425Eng. Conq. Ireland 142 Such that..al thynge vnprofytably wasteden, to harme of peesmen. 1508Fisher Wks. (1876) 75 Euery worde spoken vnproufytably and in vayne. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iv. xx. 162 b, This is not vnprofitablye appointed by the prouidence of God. 1611B. Jonson Catiline i. i, I should not now vnprofitably spend my selfe in words. a1677Barrow Serm. Wks. 1687 I. xxxi. 451 To prevent this being necessarily and unprofitably deprived of our goods. 1737Glover Leonidas iv. 237 Unprofitably wasting precious hours In vain discussion. 1819Shelley Cenci ii. ii. 140 Thus unprofitably I clasp the phantom of unfelt delights. 1856De Quincey Confess. Wks. I. 135 Impressing..a new movement upon dialogues that loitered painfully, or see-sawed unprofitably. |