disprofess

verb

disprofess

verb

Etymology From dis- + profess.

1

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:

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