profess

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone)

   To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order.

   • This swayed the balance decisively in Mary's favour, and she was professed on 8 September 1578.
2. 2

   To declare oneself (to be something).

   • 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[…].
3. 3

   To declare

   To declare; to assert, affirm.

   • 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.
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   1. 4

      To make a claim (to be something)

      To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.

      • 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.
   2. 5

      To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).

      • The remainder of the population, about two-thirds, belongs to the Mongolian race and professes Buddhism.
   3. 6

      To work as a professor of

      To work as a professor of; to teach.

      • he was a Spaniard, who about two hundred yeeres since professed Physicke in Tholouse[…].
   4. 7

      To claim to have knowledge or understanding of (a given area of interest, subject matter).

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