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Definition of profess in English: professverb prəˈfɛsprəˈfɛs [with object]1Claim that one has (a quality or feeling), especially when this is not the case. he had professed his love for her only to walk away with infinitive I don't profess to be an expert with complement he professed himself amazed at the boy's ability Example sentencesExamples - Lauren Bacall stars as Lucy, about to marry Kyle when Rock Hudson's Mitch professes his undying love.
- He died as a tyrant should, surrounded by people professing their love and loyalty and all wishing him dead.
- He also wrote her long letters professing his undying love.
- In the television show, Homer responds by ineptly professing his love for Marge, who later goes to him at the nuclear power plant where he works.
- Ask him about it, though, and he still professes amazement that he was even allowed on to the stage.
- Pupils at Paxcroft Primary School are preparing to send and receive cards in the run-up to Saturday, when thousands of people across west Wiltshire will profess their true feelings to loved ones.
- After that very day, where they professed their feelings for each other, Matthew and I spent almost all of all time together, alone.
- She can smell them out at 100 paces - even if they appear initially to be bearing roses and professing undying love.
- Raikkonen still professes confidence in his team, but admits that testing has proved problematic.
- They talked far more to the media, sponsors and loved ones - professing eternal devotion - than to each other (clocking up 5000 minutes on the phone).
- So the object of my desires has just professed her true feelings for me, what now?
- Katia, who often professes her strong feelings for David and calls him ‘my love,’ is gradually coded as the romantic of the couple with near-manic depressive outbursts of sudden weeping, laughing, and anger.
- Not a day went by that she did not wish to go back in time to deny Nelson, and profess her true feelings.
- Haslam professes an enthusiasm for lots of stuff all the time, and that's certainly been a keynote of Schvedtar's tenure on Edmonton stages.
- Throughout the years consumers have professed their lifelong love of America's number one mustard.
- Carr often professes admiration for the sage detachment of the ancient Roman emperor-philosopher Marcus Aurelius.
- Anyhow, Ross is onscreen now, professing his love for Rachel, although she's in another room.
- Whenever hurt feelings are professed, there is also a prepared story that ‘gives reason’ for the assumption of political emotion.
- Acknowledging that professing a liking for ska can be a rock band's death wish, O'Dell stands by their tastes.
- I don't pretend to profess great grief (and it's nobody's business if I feel it anyway), but it feels disrespectful not to mark it and also pleasing to have the opportunity to do so.
Synonyms declare, announce, proclaim, assert, state, affirm, avow, maintain, protest, aver, vow claim, pretend, purport, allege, make a pretence of, lay claim, make out that - 1.1archaic Have or claim knowledge or skill in (a subject or accomplishment)
though knowing little of the arts I professed, he proved a natural adept
2Affirm one's faith in or allegiance to (a religion or set of beliefs) a people professing Christianity Example sentencesExamples - More than one-third of the people profess no religion.
- Do I mean everybody who professes an orthodox creed, and bows his head at the belief?
- Then there is the major dichotomy between those who practice and profess any religion and those who are just born into them.
- Article 18 protects theistic, non-theistic and atheistic beliefs, as well as the right not to profess any religion or belief.
- It starts to dawn on you that the only reason you profess the religion you do is because of the influence of your parents and your upbringing.
- This is precisely because it is a multi-religious country with substantial segments of the population professing various religions like Islam, Christianity, Sikhism and Buddhism.
- In the Antilles, the masters, from father to son, have been professing the Christian religion ever since slavery was established there.
- It is not a matter of belonging to a religion or professing one's faith, it is a matter of orientation in life and participation in its mysteries.
- Alanon does not profess a religion, nor is it organized as a group.
- This mass migration has brought peoples professing various religions to live in areas where those religions have not been known widely.
Synonyms state/affirm one's faith in, affirm one's allegiance to, make a public declaration of, declare publicly, avow, confess, acknowledge publicly - 2.1be professed Be received into a religious order under vows.
she entered St Margaret's Convent, and was professed in 1943 Example sentencesExamples - She entered the Order in 1964 and was professed in April of 1967.
- She entered the religious life in Tasmania in January 1935 and was professed on February 2 1938.
- He was professed in 1965 in the Capuchin Order, a religious order dedicated to following the traditions of St. Francis of Assisi.
- His baptismal name was Tadhg, but when he was professed in Louvain as a Franciscan lay brother, he took the name of Míchéal.
3humorous, archaic Teach (a subject) as a professor. a professor—what does he profess? Example sentencesExamples - He earned his doctorate in Roman history at the Sorbonne, and has professed that subject for many years at the University of Paris.
- Foolish us with our medieval notions of professors professing away, surrounded by their students, all engaged in an effort to understand the world we live in and change it for the better.
- While Schama professes history at Columbia University, he was born in London, was educated at Cambridge, used to teach at Oxford, and has a long-term deal with the BBC.
Origin Middle English (as be professed 'be received into a religious order'): from Latin profess- 'declared publicly', from the verb profiteri, from pro- 'before' + fateri 'confess'. Rhymes acquiesce, address, assess, Bess, bless, bouillabaisse, caress, cess, chess, coalesce, compress, confess, convalesce, cress, deliquesce, digress, dress, duchesse, duress, effervesce, effloresce, evanesce, excess, express, fess, finesse, fluoresce, guess, Hesse, impress, incandesce, intumesce, jess, largesse, less, manageress, mess, ness, noblesse, obsess, oppress, outguess, phosphoresce, politesse, possess, press, priestess, princess, process, progress, prophetess, regress, retrogress, stress, success, suppress, tendresse, top-dress, transgress, tress, tristesse, underdress, vicomtesse, yes Definition of profess in US English: professverbprəˈfesprəˈfɛs [with object]1Claim that one has (a quality or feeling), especially when this is not the case. he had professed his love for her with infinitive I don't profess to be an expert with complement he professed himself amazed at the boy's ability Example sentencesExamples - She can smell them out at 100 paces - even if they appear initially to be bearing roses and professing undying love.
- Katia, who often professes her strong feelings for David and calls him ‘my love,’ is gradually coded as the romantic of the couple with near-manic depressive outbursts of sudden weeping, laughing, and anger.
- Pupils at Paxcroft Primary School are preparing to send and receive cards in the run-up to Saturday, when thousands of people across west Wiltshire will profess their true feelings to loved ones.
- I don't pretend to profess great grief (and it's nobody's business if I feel it anyway), but it feels disrespectful not to mark it and also pleasing to have the opportunity to do so.
- Whenever hurt feelings are professed, there is also a prepared story that ‘gives reason’ for the assumption of political emotion.
- They talked far more to the media, sponsors and loved ones - professing eternal devotion - than to each other (clocking up 5000 minutes on the phone).
- Not a day went by that she did not wish to go back in time to deny Nelson, and profess her true feelings.
- Haslam professes an enthusiasm for lots of stuff all the time, and that's certainly been a keynote of Schvedtar's tenure on Edmonton stages.
- He also wrote her long letters professing his undying love.
- Lauren Bacall stars as Lucy, about to marry Kyle when Rock Hudson's Mitch professes his undying love.
- Raikkonen still professes confidence in his team, but admits that testing has proved problematic.
- Ask him about it, though, and he still professes amazement that he was even allowed on to the stage.
- After that very day, where they professed their feelings for each other, Matthew and I spent almost all of all time together, alone.
- Anyhow, Ross is onscreen now, professing his love for Rachel, although she's in another room.
- Acknowledging that professing a liking for ska can be a rock band's death wish, O'Dell stands by their tastes.
- In the television show, Homer responds by ineptly professing his love for Marge, who later goes to him at the nuclear power plant where he works.
- So the object of my desires has just professed her true feelings for me, what now?
- Throughout the years consumers have professed their lifelong love of America's number one mustard.
- He died as a tyrant should, surrounded by people professing their love and loyalty and all wishing him dead.
- Carr often professes admiration for the sage detachment of the ancient Roman emperor-philosopher Marcus Aurelius.
Synonyms declare, announce, proclaim, assert, state, affirm, avow, maintain, protest, aver, vow claim, pretend, purport, allege, make a pretence of, lay claim, make out that - 1.1archaic Have or claim knowledge or skill in (a subject or accomplishment).
2Affirm one's faith in or allegiance to (a religion or set of beliefs) a people professing Christianity Example sentencesExamples - This is precisely because it is a multi-religious country with substantial segments of the population professing various religions like Islam, Christianity, Sikhism and Buddhism.
- More than one-third of the people profess no religion.
- It is not a matter of belonging to a religion or professing one's faith, it is a matter of orientation in life and participation in its mysteries.
- Then there is the major dichotomy between those who practice and profess any religion and those who are just born into them.
- This mass migration has brought peoples professing various religions to live in areas where those religions have not been known widely.
- Do I mean everybody who professes an orthodox creed, and bows his head at the belief?
- It starts to dawn on you that the only reason you profess the religion you do is because of the influence of your parents and your upbringing.
- Alanon does not profess a religion, nor is it organized as a group.
- Article 18 protects theistic, non-theistic and atheistic beliefs, as well as the right not to profess any religion or belief.
- In the Antilles, the masters, from father to son, have been professing the Christian religion ever since slavery was established there.
Synonyms affirm one's faith in, state one's faith in, affirm one's allegiance to, make a public declaration of, declare publicly, avow, confess, acknowledge publicly - 2.1be professed Be received into a religious order under vows.
she entered St. Margaret's Convent, and was professed in 1943 Example sentencesExamples - His baptismal name was Tadhg, but when he was professed in Louvain as a Franciscan lay brother, he took the name of Míchéal.
- She entered the Order in 1964 and was professed in April of 1967.
- He was professed in 1965 in the Capuchin Order, a religious order dedicated to following the traditions of St. Francis of Assisi.
- She entered the religious life in Tasmania in January 1935 and was professed on February 2 1938.
3humorous, archaic Teach (a subject) as a professor. a professor—what does he profess? Example sentencesExamples - He earned his doctorate in Roman history at the Sorbonne, and has professed that subject for many years at the University of Paris.
- Foolish us with our medieval notions of professors professing away, surrounded by their students, all engaged in an effort to understand the world we live in and change it for the better.
- While Schama professes history at Columbia University, he was born in London, was educated at Cambridge, used to teach at Oxford, and has a long-term deal with the BBC.
Origin Middle English (as be professed ‘be received into a religious order’): from Latin profess- ‘declared publicly’, from the verb profiteri, from pro- ‘before’ + fateri ‘confess’. |