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Definition of Profited
1. profit [v] - See also: profit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Profited
Literary usage of Profited
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by American Committee of Revision (1881)
"10 themselves were not profited. We have an altar, whereof they have no right to
eat which serve the 11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"He profited so well in the knowledge of Greek that he understood the whole of
Ptolemy, and was able to complete the "Epitome" of ..."
3. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"So that if JOB state the question right it will be this: not whether you have
profited by our ministry, but whether you might not have profited, ..."
4. The Bible in Browning: With Particular Reference to The Ring and the Book by Minnie Gresham Machen (1903)
"done for what Christ says is worth the world. — Bk. XI, 1.634, 653, 667. G.
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"Stoddart had repeated it to Scott, who profited by its new system of versification
in the 'Lav of the Last Minstrel.' Coleridge refers to this imitation as ..."
6. The Prairie: A Tale by James Fenimore Cooper (1898)
"He profited by the delay to mature a plan which he intended should put the whole
encampment, including both its effects and their proprietors, ..."
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