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VERB (7)

1. practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about;
- Example: "She professes organic chemistry"

2. confess one's faith in, or allegiance to;
- Example: "The terrorists professed allegiance to their country"
- Example: "he professes to be a Communist"

3. admit (to a wrongdoing);
- Example: "She confessed that she had taken the money"
[syn: concede, profess, confess]

4. state freely;
- Example: "The teacher professed that he was not generous when it came to giving good grades"

5. receive into a religious order or congregation;

6. take vows, as in religious order;
- Example: "she professed herself as a nun"

7. state insincerely;
- Example: "He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt"
- Example: "She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber"
- Example: "She pretends to be an expert on wine"
[syn: profess, pretend]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Profess \Pro*fess"\ (pr[-o]*f[e^]s"), v. i.
   1. To take a profession upon one's self by a public
      declaration; to confess. --Drayton.
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   2. To declare friendship. [Obs.] --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Profess \Pro*fess"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Professed; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Professing.] [F. prof[`e]s, masc., professe, fem.,
   professed (monk or nun), L. professus, p. p. of profiteri to
   profess; pro before, forward + fateri to confess, own. See
   Confess.]
   [1913 Webster]
   1. To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge,
      belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess
      publicly; to own or admit freely. "Hear me profess
      sincerely." --Shak.
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            The best and wisest of them all professed
            To know this only, that he nothing knew. --Milton.
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   2. To set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to put
      on or present an appearance of.
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            I do profess to be no less than I seem. --Shak.
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   3. To present to knowledge of, to proclaim one's self versed
      in; to make one's self a teacher or practitioner of, to
      set up as an authority respecting; to declare (one's self
      to be such); as, he professes surgery; to profess one's
      self a physician.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

profess
    v 1: practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be
         knowledgeable about; "She professes organic chemistry"
    2: confess one's faith in, or allegiance to; "The terrorists
       professed allegiance to their country"; "he professes to be a
       Communist"
    3: admit (to a wrongdoing); "She confessed that she had taken
       the money" [syn: concede, profess, confess]
    4: state freely; "The teacher professed that he was not generous
       when it came to giving good grades"
    5: receive into a religious order or congregation
    6: take vows, as in religious order; "she professed herself as a
       nun"
    7: state insincerely; "He professed innocence but later admitted
       his guilt"; "She pretended not to have known the suicide
       bomber"; "She pretends to be an expert on wine" [syn:
       profess, pretend]