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disprofess

disprofess verb: to give up, renounce.

Verb

disprofess (third-person singular simple present disprofesses, present participle disprofessing, simple past and past participle disprofessed)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To give up, renounce.
    • His armes, which he had vowed to disprofesse, / She gathered vp and did about him dresse [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of disprofess

third-person singular presentdisprofesses
present participledisprofessing
past participledisprofessed
pastdisprofessed

Origin of disprofess

From dis- + profess.

Questions about disprofess

What does disprofess mean?
Disprofess means to give up, renounce.
What part of speech is disprofess?
Disprofess is a verb.
What is the past tense of disprofess?
The past tense of disprofess is disprofessed.

Words near disprofess in the dictionary

  1. disprize
  2. disprized
  3. disprizes
  4. disprizing
  5. disprobative
  6. disprofess
  7. disprofessed
  8. disprofesses
  9. disprofessing
  10. disprofit
  11. disprofitable

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