disprofess

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ profess.

Verb

disprofess (third-person singular simple present disprofesses, present participle disprofessing, simple past and past participle disprofessed)

1. (obsolete, rare) To give up, renounce.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     His armes, which he had vowed to disprofesse, / She gathered vp and did about him dresse [...].