profess

[pro·fess]

To profess is to declare something, often insincerely. Your joy on the last day of school might lead you to profess that you'll truly miss seeing all the people who annoyed you all year.

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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.

Verb
state insincerely; "He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt"; "She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber"; "She pretends to be an expert on wine"

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confess one''s faith in, or allegiance to; "The terrorists professed allegiance to the Muslim faith"; "he professes to be a Communist"

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admit, make a clean breast of; "She confessed that she had taken the money"

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practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about; "She professes organic chemistry"

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take vows, as in religious order; "she professed herself as a nun"

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receive into a religious order or congregation

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state freely; "The teacher professed that he was not generous when it came to giving good grades"

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

v. t.
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); as, he professes surgery; to profess one's self a physician.

v. i.
To take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess.

v. i.
To declare friendship.

Profess

Pro*fess" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Professed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Professing.] [F. prof'8as, masc., professe, fem., professed (monk or nun), L. professus, p. p. of profiteri to profess; pro before, forward + fateri to confess, own. See Confess.] 1. 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. "Hear me profess sincerely." Shak.

The best and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.

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

I do profess to be no less than I seem.

3. 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); as, he professes surgery; to profess one's self a physician.

Profess

Pro*fess" , v. i. 1. To take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess. Drayton. 2. To declare friendship. [Obs.] Shak.

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.

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

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Usage Examples

Having gone through so many of the personal things I've gone through, its about creating an (online) space for girls to be heard. I don't profess to have all the answers. But Ask Elizabeth is a space where girls are not alone.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

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Other Usage Examples

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.