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v. To affirm openly; declare or claim: "a physics major [who] professes to be a stickler when it comes to data” ( Gina Maranto).

v. To make a pretense of; pretend: "top officials who were deeply involved with the arms sales but later professed ignorance of them” ( David Johnston).

v. To practice as a profession or claim knowledge of: profess medicine.

v. To teach (a subject) as a professor: profess literature.

v. To affirm belief in: profess Catholicism.

v. To receive into a religious order or congregation.

verb-intransitive. To make an open affirmation.

verb-intransitive. To take the vows of a religious order or congregation.

v. To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely.

v. To set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to put on or present an appearance of.

v. To present to knowledge of, to proclaim one's self versed in; to make one's self a teacher or practitioner of, to set up as an authority respecting; to declare (one's self to be such)

verb-intransitive. To take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess.

verb-intransitive. To declare friendship.

To declare openly; make open declaration of; avow or acknowledge; own freely; affirm.

To acknowledge or own publicly; also, to lay claim openly to the character of.

To affirm faith in or allegiance to: as, to profess Christianity.

To make a show of; make protestations of; make a pretense of; pretend.

To announce publicly one's skill in, as a science or a profession; declare one's self versed in: as, to profess surgery.

In the Rom. Cath. and Anglican churches, to receive into a religious order by profession.

To present the appearance of.

Synonyms and To declare, allege, aver, avouch.

To lay claim to.

To declare openly; make any declaration or assertion.

To enter into the religious state by public declaration or profession.

To declare or pretend friendship.

v. state freely

v. practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about

v. admit (to a wrongdoing)

v. confess one's faith in, or allegiance to

v. take vows, as in religious order

v. state insincerely

v. receive into a religious order or congregation

"For instance, when these churchmen again profess and put their signatures to those anti-liberal documents, then we know that they too have got out of their Hegelianism."

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declare    claim    take on    take    accept    admit   

professed    professing   

confess    state    avow    affect    pretend   

Bess    Es    Etess    Fs    Hess    Hesse    Ins    Jess    Les    Ness   

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