Lexicographical Neighbors of Profiters
Literary usage of Profiters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Divine Cloud by Augustine Baker, Henry Collins (1871)
"In like manner, prayer may not well be gotten in beginners and profiters, (by
profiters I mean such as have somewhat profited in these spiritual ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1868)
"... move quietly amongst us, counsel us, and advise us—warners of our dangers,
and never profiters by our weaknesses. These men should more frequently be ..."
3. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"Of the people's thus looking for a remedy to the authors (sure supporters of,
because constant profiters by, the disease) what is the consequence '. ..."
4. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1863)
"... against the principle, may be challenged on the score of interest or of
partiality, as notorious profiters by political patronage, or expectants of it. ..."
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