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Definition of Profitless
1. Adjective. Without profit or reward. "How weary, flat, stale, and unprofitable / Seem to me all the uses of this world"
Definition of Profitless
1. a. Without profit; unprofitable.
Definition of Profitless
1. Adjective. not yielding profit ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Profitless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Profitless
Literary usage of Profitless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"CHAPTER XIII profitless QUEST A' eray step which Harry Warrington took towards
Pennsylvania, the reports of the British disaster were magnified and ..."
2. History of Mexico by Hubert Howe Bancroft, William Nemos, Thomas Savage, Joseph Joshua Peatfield (1883)
"... HOPES—A profitless EXPEDITION—NIZA REVIVES ENTHUSIASM—VISIONS OF CONQUEST AND
WEALTH—TROUBLES ..."
3. The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power in Nations to by Norman Angell (1911)
"... brigandage become as profitless as private brigandage—The real basis of
commercial honesty on the part of government. JUST as Mr. Harrison has declared ..."
4. The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National by Norman Angell (1913)
"... of military conquest —Government brigandage becomes as profitless as private
brigandage—The real basis of commercial honesty on the part of Government. ..."
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