Found 4 items, similar to Professed.
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Definition: professed
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Definition: profess
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: professed
professed
adj 1: professing to be qualified;
“a professed philosopher” [syn:
professed(a)]
2: claimed with intent to deceive;
“his professed intentions”
[syn:
professed(a)]
3: openly declared as such;
“an avowed enemy”;
“her professed
love of everything about that country”;
“McKinley was
assassinated by a professed anarchist” [syn:
avowed(a),
professed(a)]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Professed
Professed
\Pro*fessed"\, a.
Openly declared, avowed, acknowledged, or claimed; as, a
professed foe; a professed tyrant; a professed Christian.
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The professed (R. C. Ch.), a certain class among the
Jesuits bound by a special vow. See the note under
Jesuit.
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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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