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Profess   /prəfˈɛs/   Listen
Profess

verb
(past & past part. professed; pres. part. professing)
1.
Practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about.
2.
Confess one's faith in, or allegiance to.  "He professes to be a Communist"
3.
Admit (to a wrongdoing).  Synonyms: concede, confess.
4.
State freely.
5.
Receive into a religious order or congregation.
6.
Take vows, as in religious order.
7.
State insincerely.  Synonym: pretend.  "She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber" , "She pretends to be an expert on wine"



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"Profess" Quotes from Famous Books



... those visitors to this exhibition, who do not profess an intimacy with the objects herein collected for their amusement, from being misled by the supposititious circumstance of the highest prize having commanded the best picture, we beg to point to their attention the following peculiarities (by ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, September 12, 1841 • Various
... established would be serious; but it would be a gratuitous and vile act for you, who profess to ...
— Bohemian Days - Three American Tales • Geo. Alfred Townsend
... calls it forth. It may therefore sometimes be carried with the fuel to the fire, and wake up only time enough to put forth all its faculties for its defence. Its viscous juice would do good service, and all who profess to have seen it acknowledge that it got out of the fire as fast as its legs could carry it; indeed too fast for them ever to make prize of one, except in one instance, and in that one, the animal's feet and some parts of its ...
— TITLE • AUTHOR
... profess to follow reason? Yes, undoubtedly, if by reason they mean only conceits. Therefore such persons are now commonly called Reasonists or Rationalists to distinguish them from true ...
— History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology • John F. Hurst
... of the former, "ultimam partem Evangelii Marci videtur tollere:"(583) lastly, how Tischendorf (1869) can write,—"est enim ejusmodi ut ultimam partem evangelii Marci, de quo quaeritur, excludat:"(584)—I profess myself unable to understand. ...
— The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark • John Burgon


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