Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- By profession; avowedly; by open declaration or avowal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb By profession.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
professed manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb by open declaration
- adverb with pretense or intention to deceive
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Examples
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The Greek genealogies render us so familiar with heroes eponymi -- imaginary personages, who owe their origin to the mere fact of the existence of certain tribe or race names, to account for which they were invented -- that whenever, even in the history of other nations, we happen upon a name professedly personal, which stands evidently in close connection with a tribal designation, we are apt at once to suspect it of being fictitious.
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It was silent upon the subject for which the war had "professedly" been declared.
The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Charles Roger
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Away then with the widespread but most mischievous error of those who give it as their opinion that the reception of the Eucharist is in a manner reserved for those narrow-minded persons (as they are deemed) who rid themselves of the cares of the world in order to find rest in some kind of professedly religious life.
Latest Articles Robert Drobot 2009
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Away then with the widespread but most mischievous error of those who give it as their opinion that the reception of the Eucharist is in a manner reserved for those narrow-minded persons (as they are deemed) who rid themselves of the cares of the world in order to find rest in some kind of professedly religious life.
Latest Articles 2009
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It is no great wonder that the most professedly "progressive" administration in many years should be doubling down on the technocratic tendencies of George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind: with its obsession with testing as the verifier of educational success, this reform provides an altar for a managerial elite to engage in a worship of statistics.
Fred Bauer: A Conservative Critique of High-Stakes Standardized Testing Fred Bauer 2012
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Sometimes critics of the better type substitute a work of art of their own for that they are professedly dealing with.
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Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre is a woman's autobiography, by a woman it is professedly written.
Nava Atlas: Based Upon the Book: An Interview with Charlotte Brontë Nava Atlas 2011
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Sometimes critics of the better type substitute a work of art of their own for that they are professedly dealing with.
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Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre is a woman's autobiography, by a woman it is professedly written.
Nava Atlas: Based Upon the Book: An Interview with Charlotte Brontë Nava Atlas 2011
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Sometimes critics of the better type substitute a work of art of their own for that they are professedly dealing with.
June 2010 2010
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