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Verb: profess  pru'fes
  1. State insincerely
    "He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt";
    - pretend
     
  2. State freely
    "The teacher professed that he was not generous when it came to giving good grades"
     
  3. Practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about
    "She professes organic chemistry"
     
  4. Confess one's faith in, or allegiance to
    "The terrorists professed allegiance to their country"; "he professes to be a Communist"
     
  5. Admit (to a wrongdoing)
    "She professed that she had taken the money";
    - concede, confess
     
  6. Receive into a religious order or congregation
     
  7. Take vows, as in religious order
    "she professed herself as a nun"

Derived forms: professing, professes, professed

Type of: accept, acknowledge, admit, claim, declare, pronounce, take, take on, vow