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Meaning profess meaning

What does profess mean?

profess

— verb practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about She professes organic chemistry — verb confess one's faith in, or allegiance to The terrorists professed allegiance to their country he professes to be a Communist — verb (= confess) admit (to a wrongdoing) She confessed that she had taken the money — verb state freely The teacher professed that he was not generous when it came to giving good grades — verb receive into a religious order or congregation — verb take vows, as in religious order she professed herself as a nun — verb (= pretend) 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 admit acknowledge pretend declare claim concede avow maintain state contend assert worship proclaim plead own argue announce wise up voice tutor train teach take in simulate send word run rule report recognize recognise purport propagate pronounce promulgate presume preach practice post operate notify make out learn keep instruct insist incur ground give notice give away

Conjugation profess conjugation

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profess · verb

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I, Sister Anne-Marie, profess to you.
I conjure you, by that which you profess.
What religion do you profess, Preacher?
We are all rebels who profess the chalice.
I. I don't profess to understand it, Mr. Carey.
But you profess to be a great admirer of conquerors.
I conjure you, by that which you profess, howe'er you know it.
I profess to be.
My friends profess sympathy, but behind my back I know I am despised.
Among other things I profess the useful art of alchemy.
No, Morlar didn't profess to use hypnosis.
Unusual of you, Mr. Neville. to profess to an ignorance of a subject which before. you would be anxious to have us believe was an essential. prerequisite to an artist's vocabulary.
Those of you who continue to profess a belief in the Users. will receive the standard substandard training, which will result in your eventual elimination.
Only she comes too short, that I profess myself an enemy to all other joys which the most precious square of sense possesses, and find I am alone felicitate in your dear highness' love.
I conjure you, by that which you profess. Howe'er you come to know it, answer me.
I do not profess to make dead men talk!
Just one of those patients that you profess to care so much about, who has no chance of living unless you perform a miracle.
Do you still profess to be prepared for what awaits you?
And so much duty as my mother showed to you preferring you before her father so much I challenge that I may profess due to the Moor my lord.
What is this twilight. this half-world of the mind that you profess to know so much about?
And so much duty as my mother showed to you preferring you before her father so much I challenge that I may profess due to the Moor, my lord.
Christians profess a religion for which they cannot give a reason and even declare that any attempt to do so would be foolishness.
But, you see, if I wanted to profess my faith, it would've been a very feeble excuse to say that I no longer have my clerical collar.
Do you want to receive baptism under the Church principles that we all profess?
Those of you who continue. to profess a belief in the Users. will receive the standard substandard training, which will result in your eventual elimination.
I won't profess my personal beliefs.
Or I suppose we could throw ourselves at each other profess our undying love for each other in complete disregard for Trill society.
Throw myself at her profess my undying love and my complete disregard for Trill society.
I'm honored by the love which you profess.

News and current affairs

Indeed, around the world there is a gap between civil-society organizations and the societies they profess to serve.
But, by adopting such a stance, they thwart their own envoy and may well stimulate the violence they profess to abhor.
Globalization and technology have given the disaffected a new homeland to profess Islam as they see it.
Still, many people profess to believe that poverty is the result of not working hard enough, or of having too many children.
With various feints and strategies, Malaysia has effectively managed the tensions between a secular, modernizing agenda and the Islamic faith that the Malays profess.
Those who believe that the EU is right for both Turkey and Europe must also start to fight for what they profess.
They profess such sobriety of view as to regard all concepts as equal in weight or significance until new evidence decrees otherwise.
Human rights groups suspect that even if the Afghan government and Taliban representatives profess to respect the constitution in any future peace agreement, they will not enforce some of its provisions in practice.
An unprecedented feature of our global civilization is that it is basically atheistic, notwithstanding the billions of people who profess, whether actively or passively, to believe in a religion.
How could he profess such views as the leader of a European Union member state, even as he stuffed his government's coffers with EU subsidies?

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