Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Openly declared, avowed, acknowledged, or claimed
- adjective (R. C. Ch.) , a certain class among the Jesuits bound by a special vow. See the note under
Jesuit .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Professing to bequalified . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
profess .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective professing to be qualified
- adjective claimed with intent to deceive
- adjective openly declared as such
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Examples
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The discarded box it had arrived in professed it as ‘the best sex on the market’ Richard fingered the wedding band she had placed on his finger.
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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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Orwell states, "Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life."
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Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse - hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.
Animal Farm 1945
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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 Britain he had sailed and whither he was bound.
The Adventures of Roderick Random Tobias George Smollett 1746
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The various rebels of Arabia without a chief or a cause, were speedily suppressed by the power and discipline of the rising monarchy; and the whole nation again professed, and more steadfastly held, the religion of the Koran.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Hillary Clinton in no short term professed that she would be waiting for an "Unthinkable" event to propel her as the presidential nominee.
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WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: A self-proclaimed -- self-professed, that is, former jewel thief says, during his life of crime, he stole more than $35 million worth of fancy baubles, and now he's detailing it all in a tell-all book, "Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief."
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But the baptism of John was a 'baptism of repentance'; Mark 1: 4: which being undertaken, they who were baptized professed to renounce their own legal righteousness; and, on the contrary, acknowledged themselves to be obliged to repentance and faith in the Messias to come.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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Formerly, a religious did not necessarily form a part of an approved institute; there were persons simply called professed, as well as professed in such an institute or such a monastery.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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