disprofess en · VERB
Etymology
From dis- + profess.
Meanings
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(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
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| disprofessing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| disprofessed | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| disprofessed | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| disprofesses | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |