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profect

profect noun: profit.

Noun

profect (plural profects)

  1. (obsolete) Profit.
    • Henry of Surrey was never for singular profect (profit) corrupted.1816, The Edinburgh Review, volume 27

Verb

profect (third-person singular simple present profects, present participle profecting, simple past and past participle profected)

  1. (obsolete) To benefit, profit, advance.
    • And that I have thowght that pardons doth profect them that be ded. And I have dowbted whether they profect them that be on lyef or not.Published in 1858, Recantation of Thomas Garrard, The Church Historians of England

Forms of profect

Noun
pluralprofects
Verb
third-person singular presentprofects
present participleprofecting
past participleprofected
pastprofected

Origin of profect

From Latin profectus. Doublet of profit.

Questions about profect

What does profect mean?
Profect means profit.
What part of speech is profect?
Profect can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of profect?
The plural of profect is profects.

Words near profect in the dictionary

  1. profanum vulgus
  2. profarmer
  3. profarming
  4. profascist
  5. profascists
  6. profect
  7. profected
  8. profection
  9. profectional
  10. profectitious
  11. profects

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