profess

IPA: prʌfˈɛs

(transitive, chiefly passive voice) To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order.
(reflexive) To declare oneself (to be something).
(transitive, intransitive) To declare; to assert, affirm.
(transitive) To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.
(transitive) To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).
(transitive) To work as a professor of; to teach.
(transitive, now rare) To claim to have knowledge or understanding of (a given area of interest, subject matter).

Examples of "profess" in Sentences

Do we not therein profess to be in friendship, and to have fellowship, with him?
Any profession does--if you "profess," expect to be challenged, especially by your peers.
I am better pleased that it should be so; in leaving me there, they humour what I profess, which is to settle and wholly contain myself within myself.
The system of Optimism, to which I assent & which I therefore profess, is not without difficulties, great & many. but every other system appears to me to have more
For instance, when these churchmen again profess and put their signatures to those anti-liberal documents, then we know that they too have got out of their Hegelianism.
People who, based on previous movie preferences, could reliably be expected to like the film can't stand it; those who have shown no interest in similar titles profess to love it.
The cause of God's people, and of that holy religion which they profess, is a righteous cause, otherwise the righteous God would not appear for it; yet it may for a time be run down, and seem as if it were lost.
Before we proceed further, however, it may be necessary that we should give a brief attention to the lexicography of these two terms profess and confess, as English words; especially as our translators have rendered the Greek word omologia by these two words, indifferently, as though they were equivalents; and thus the English reader is