profiting

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PROF'ITING, participle present tense Gaining interest or advantage; improving. PROF'ITING, noun Gain; advantage; improvement. That thy profiting may appear to all. 1 Timothy 4:15.
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