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Profess

verb

Verb

1
To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order. transitive
"This swayed the balance decisively in Mary's favour, and she was professed on 8 September 1578."
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state insincerely wordnet
3
To declare oneself (to be something). reflexive
"Kiefer professes himself amused by the fuss that ensued when he announced that he was buying the Mülheim-Kärlich reactor[…]."
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confess one's faith in, or allegiance to wordnet
5
To declare; to assert, affirm. ambitransitive
"He professes to haue receiued no sinister measure from his Iudge, but most willingly humbles himselfe to the determination of Iustice[…]."

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admit (to a wrongdoing) wordnet
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To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity. transitive
"Ed Miliband professed ignorance of the comment when he was approached by the BBC later."
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practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about wordnet
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To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.). transitive
"[N]ow ſuch a liue vngodly, vvithout a care of doing the wil of the Lord (though they profeſſe him in their mouths, yea though they beleeue and acknowledge all the Articles of the Creed, yea haue knowledge of the Scripturs) yet if they liue vngodly, they deny God, and therefore ſhal be denied, […]"
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take vows, as in religious order wordnet
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To work as a professor of; to teach. transitive
"he was a Spaniard, who about two hundred yeeres since professed Physicke in Tholouse[…]."
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receive into a religious order or congregation wordnet
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To claim to have knowledge or understanding of (a given area of interest, subject matter). archaic, transitive
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state freely wordnet

From Old French professer, and its source, the participle stem of Latin profitērī, from pro- + fatērī (“to confess, acknowledge”).

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