profess
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French professer, and its source, the participle stem of Latin profitērī, from pro- + fatērī (“to confess, acknowledge”).
Inflected forms:
form: professes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: professing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: professed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: professed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This swayed the balance decisively in Mary's favour, and she was professed on 8 September 1578.
gloss: To declare oneself (to be something).
pos: verb
tags: reflexive
examples: They've professed themselves delighted with the results.
Kiefer professes himself amused by the fuss that ensued when he announced that he was buying the Mülheim-Kärlich reactor[…].
gloss: To declare; to assert, affirm.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Having professed her belief in the remedy, she had little choice but to try it.
He professes to haue receiued no sinister measure from his Iudge, but most willingly humbles himselfe to the determination of Iustice[…].
The best and wisest of them all professed / To know this only, that he nothing knew.
The guard was paying no attention whatever to the running of his train, in total disregard of rules, and, as the recently-published report of a Ministry of Transport Inspecting Officer of Railways shows, there were other disquieting features in the case, such as ignorance on the part of responsible men of rules and appendix instructions and a lax attitude to regulations of which they professed to be aware, combined with failure to look at staff notice boards.
The Governor immediately professed that he knew nothing about the incident.
WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected,[…]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.
gloss: To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Many profess to despise what secretly they hunger after.
Ed Miliband professed ignorance of the comment when he was approached by the BBC later.
Caution needs to be exercised in regards to claims of coinage as the data contained a number of examples of writers professing the invention of a term that had actually been in existence for many years.
gloss: To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [N]ow ſuch a liue vngodly, vvithout a care of doing the wil of the Lord (though they profeſſe him in their mouths, yea though they beleeue and acknowledge all the Articles of the Creed, yea haue knowledge of the Scripturs) yet if they liue vngodly, they deny God, and therefore ſhal be denied, […]
The remainder of the population, about two-thirds, belongs to the Mongolian race and professes Buddhism.
gloss: To work as a professor of; to teach.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: he was a Spaniard, who about two hundred yeeres since professed Physicke in Tholouse[…].
gloss: To claim to have knowledge or understanding of (a given area of interest, subject matter).
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
Related words: profession
professor
Derived words: disprofess
misprofess
professable
unprofessing
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