professed; professing; professes
1
: to receive formally into a religious community following a novitiate by acceptance of the required vows
2
3
: to confess one's faith in or allegiance to
4
a
: to practice or claim to be versed in (a calling or profession)
b
: to teach as a professor
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Examples of profess in a Sentence
He professes confidence in his friend.
They profess loyalty to the king.
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By contrast, instead of democracy or human rights, the Taliban professed a fundamentalist vision of Islamic law.
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Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024
Eliot, unlike Marx, professed few answers to the problem of class in the nineteenth century.
—Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
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Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024
Eliot, unlike Marx, professed few answers to the problem of class in the nineteenth century.
—Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
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profess
verb
pro·fess
prə-ˈfes 
1
: to declare openly or freely
profess confidence in a friend
2
: pretend entry 1 sense 1, claim
professed to be our friends
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