KJV Dictionary Definition: advantage

advantage

ADV'ANTAGE, n.

1. Any state, condition, or circumstance, favorable to success, prosperity, interest, or reputation.

The enemy had the advantage of elevated ground.

2. Benefit; gain; profit.

What advantage will it be to thee? Job 35.

There exists, in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage.

3. Means to an end; opportunity; convenience for obtaining benefit; as, student enjoy great advantages for improvement.

The General took advantage of his enemy's negligence.

4. Favorable state or circumstances; as, jewels set to advantage.

5. Superiority, or prevalence over; with of or over.

Lest Satan should get an advantage of us, (or over us.) 2Cor. 2.

6. Superiority, or that which gives it; as, the advantage of a good constitution.

7. Interest; increase; overplus.

And with advantage means to pay thy love. Obs.

8. Additional circumstance to give preponderation.

ADV'ANTAGE, v.t.

1. To benefit; as to yield profit or gain.

What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? Luke 9.

2. To promote; to advance the interest of.

advantageable

ADV'ANTAGEABLE, a. Profitable; convenient; gainful. Little used.

advantaged

ADV'ANTAGED, pp. Benefitted; promoted.

advantageous

ADVANTA'GEOUS, a. Being of advantage; furnishing convenience, or opportunity to gain benefit; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position of the troops; trade is advantageous to a nation.

advantageously

ADVANTA'GEOUSLY, adv. In an advantageous manner; profitably; usefully; conveniently.

advantageousness

ADVANTA'GEOUSNESS, n. The quality or state of being advantageous; profitableness; usefulness; convenience.

advantaging

ADV'ANTAGING, ppr. Profiting; benefiting.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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