Professed

//pɹəˈfɛst//

Synonyms for "professed" (66 found)

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declared accepted acknowledged admitted affirmed alleged allowed announced apparent approved asserted asseverated attested authenticated

Strong matches (19)

averred avouched avowed certified claimed conceded confessed confirmed countersigned deposed endorsed enunciated formal granted hypocritical in name only manifestoed nominal

Adjective(1 words)

avowed

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nonprofessed professedly self-professed unprofessed

form of

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profess

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profess qualified

similar

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declared professional

Sample sentences

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He professed to know nothing about it.

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He professed himself satisfied.

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I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of.

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But when our fortune and our hopes declined, / the treacherous King the conqueror's cause professed, / and, false to faith, to friendship and to kind, / slew Polydorus, and his wealth possessed. / Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power attest!

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