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disprofessing

disprofessing is the present participle and gerund of disprofess.

Meaning of disprofess

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

Questions about disprofessing

What is disprofessing the present participle and gerund of?
Disprofessing is the present participle and gerund of disprofess.

Words near disprofessing in the dictionary

  1. disprizing
  2. disprobative
  3. disprofess
  4. disprofessed
  5. disprofesses
  6. disprofessing
  7. disprofit
  8. disprofitable
  9. disprofited
  10. disprofiting
  11. disprofits

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