disprofess🔊verbEtymology From dis- + profess.1Obsolete, 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: