profess

[ pruh-fes ]

/ prəˈfɛs /

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verb (used with object)

to lay claim to, often insincerely; pretend to: He professed extreme regret.

to declare openly; announce or affirm; avow or acknowledge: to profess one's satisfaction.

to affirm faith in or allegiance to (a religion, God, etc.).

to declare oneself skilled or expert in; claim to have knowledge of; make (a thing) one's profession or business.

to teach as a professor: She professes comparative literature.

to receive or admit into a religious order.

verb (used without object)

to make a profession, avowal, or declaration.

to take the vows of a religious order.

Origin of profess

1400–50; late Middle English; back formation from professed

SYNONYMS FOR profess

1 claim, allege, purport, avow.

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OTHER WORDS FROM profess

pre·pro·fess, verb (used with object) un·pro·fess·ing, adjective

Words nearby profess

profane, profanity, profascist, profeminist, profert, profess, professed, professedly, profession, professional, professional association

Example sentences from the Web for profess

Then one daring, possibly planted, spectator interrupted the show to profess her crush.

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To them, a politician is supposed to play it safe and profess as his goals only those things that are potentially attainable.

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Those who profess to know him well, display dismay that he could have such an extraordinary lapse in discipline and control.

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Similarly, the thirty-nine framers at Philadelphia were allowed to profess their faith even in the public square.

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But will his poetic voice that you profess to love so much change now that his political voice has?

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But note this; he had not, did not profess to have, definite convictions upon the most important of all truths.

Modern Skepticism |C. J. Ellicott
Though they profess to despise theory, they are, in reality, enslaved by it.

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They do not profess to compete with the so-called cheap volumes.

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You profess to consider me as having given you "an invitation."

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Can you fully trust me, and thoroughly rely on what I profess, Esther?

Bleak House |Charles Dickens

British Dictionary definitions for profess

profess

/ (prəˈfɛs) /

verb

to affirm or announce (something, such as faith); acknowledge to profess ignorance; to profess a belief in God

(tr) to claim (something, such as a feeling or skill, or to be or do something), often insincerely or falsely to profess to be a skilled driver

to receive or be received into a religious order, as by taking vows

Word Origin for profess

C14: from Latin prōfitērī to confess openly, from pro- 1 + fatērī to confess

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