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adj. Professing to be qualified.

v. Simple past tense and past participle of profess.

adj. Openly declared, avowed, acknowledged, or claimed

Avowed; declared; pledged by profession; professional: as, a professed woman-hater; a professed nun; a professed cook.

one who by promise freely made and accepted has, after a year of probation, been received in and bound to a religious order.

adj. professing to be qualified

adj. claimed with intent to deceive

adj. openly declared as such

"Having asked leave of our entertainer, he accosted us in English, professed his satisfaction at seeing so many of his countrymen in such a remote place, and asked the captain, who went by the name of Signor Thoma, from what part of"

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