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English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: profess
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: profess
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 the Muslim faith”;
“he professes
to be a Communist”
3: admit, make a clean breast of;
“She confessed that she had
taken the money” [syn:
concede,
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:
pretend]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Profess
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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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.]
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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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