profess
IPA: prʌfˈɛs
verb
- (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).
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Examples of "profess" in Sentences
- I professed to a priest.
- It is the benchmark in the profession.
- Grading is the bane of the profession.
- By profession he was a surgeon oculist.
- The profession of the people is farming.
- By profession, he was a surgeon oculist.
- The profession is similar to a paralegal.
- This was the duty and profession of the Nairs.
- Acting is hardly a profession for the reclusive.
- It is a variety of the profession of the toolmaker.
- 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