Word Meanings - DISPROFESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To renounce the profession or pursuit of. His arms, which he had vowed to disprofess. Spenser.

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• VOWELIZE
  To give the quality, sound, or office of a vowel to.
• DISPROFESS
  To renounce the profession or pursuit of. His arms, which he had vowed to disprofess. Spenser.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• VOWEL
  A vocal, or sometimes a whispered, sound modified by resonance in the oral passage, the peculiar resonance in each case giving to each several vowel its distinctive character or quality as a sound of speech; -- distinguished from a consonant in
• VOWELISM
  The use of vowels.
• RENOUNCE
  To disclaim having a card of by playing a card of another suit. To renounce probate , to decline to act as the executor of a will. Mozley & W. Syn. -- To cast off; disavow; disown; disclaim; deny; abjure; recant; abandon; forsake; quit; forego;
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• PROFESSIONALISM
  The following of a profession, sport, etc., as an occupation; - - opposed to Ant: amateurism.
• RENOUNCEMENT
  The act of disclaiming or rejecting; renunciation. Shak.
• RENOUNCER
  One who renounces.
• VOWELISH
  Of the nature of a vowel. "The power is always vowelish." B. Jonson.
• VOW-FELLOW
  One bound by the same vow as another. Shak.
• VOW
  1. A solemn promise made to God, or to some deity; an act by which one consecrates or devotes himself, absolutely or conditionally, wholly or in part, for a longer or shorter time, to some act, service, or condition; a devotion of one's
• PURSUIT
  Prosecution. That pursuit for tithes ought, and of ancient time did pertain to the spiritual court. Fuller. Curve of pursuit , a curve described by a point which is at each instant moving towards a second point, which is itself moving according
• VOWER
  One who makes a vow. Bale.
• PROFESSION
  The act of entering, or becoming a member of, a religious order. (more info) 1. The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith. A solemn vow, promise, and
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• VOWELED
  Furnished with vowels. Dryden.
• PROFESSIONAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct. "Pride, not personal, but professional." Macaulay. "A professional
• PROFESSIONALIST
  professional person.
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• DISAVOWMENT
  Disavowal. Wotton.
• DISAVOWER
  One who disavows.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• NONPROFESSIONAL
  Not belonging to a profession; not done by, or proceeding from, professional men; contrary to professional usage.
• AVOWRY
  1. An advocate; a patron; a patron saint. Let God alone be our avowry. Latimer. 2. The act of the distrainer of goods, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking in his own right. Blackstone. Note: When an action of replevin
• AVOWANCE
  1. Act of avowing; avowal. 2. Upholding; defense; vindication. Can my avowance of king-murdering be collected from anything here written by me Fuller.
• DISAVOW
  1. To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, an the like; to disclaim; to disown; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime. A solemn promise made and disavowed. Dryden.
• ADVOWSON
  The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present Note: The benefices of the Church of England are in every case subjects of presentation. They are nearly 12,000 in
• SEMIVOWEL
  A sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant, or partaking of the nature of both, as in the English w and y. The sign or letter representing such a sound.