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† imˈprofitable, a. Obs.
Also 4–5 in-.
[f. im-2 + profitable.]
Not profitable, unprofitable.
a1325Prose Psalter lii[i]. 4 Hij ben made inprofitable. 1434Misyn Mending Life xi. 124 Qwateuer he do, inprofetabyll & intollerabyll it semys. 1558Kennedy Compend. Tractive in Wodr. Soc. Misc. (1844) 125 Improffitable for our purpose. 1660Sharrock Vegetables 87 Weeds, fern, heath, broom and other improfitable vegetables. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Milk, The only Way to make a Cow dry and utterly improfitable for the Dairy.
Hence † imˈprofitableness, unprofitableness.
a1643J. Shute Judgem. & Mercy (1645) 176 Cause..to wish that they had never seene your faces, because of your improfitablenesse. |