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[ verb ] practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about
Examples "She professes organic chemistry" Used in print (The Providence Journal...)But at_least it 's reassuring to see some teenagers who do n't profess to know all the answers and are thinking_about their problems instead . (Edward Austin Walton, "On Education for the Interior...)This seems somewhat shortsighted since if the absolute educational qualifications for membership which the organizations profess are ever enforced , the educator will have the molding of the entire profession in his hands . Related terms |
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[ verb ] confess one's faith in, or allegiance to
Examples "The terrorists professed allegiance to the Muslim faith" "he professes to be a Communist" Used in print (David Boroff, "Jewish Teen-Age Culture"...)However , they were hostile to Jewish Orthodoxy , professing to believe_in Judaism `` but in a moderate way '' . (Randall Stewart, "A Little History, a Little Honesty: A...)A recent newspaper report said there were five Negroes in the 1960 graduating_class of nearly one_thousand at Yale ; that_is , about one-half of one per_cent , which looks pretty `` tokenish '' to me , especially in an institution which professes to be `` national '' . Related terms |
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[ verb ] make a clean breast of
Examples "She confessed that she had taken the money" Used in print (Doris Miles Disney, Mrs. Meeker's Money....)No one the Medfield police had questioned professed to know any more about him than about Johnston . Related terms |
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[ verb ] receive into a religious order or congregation
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[ verb ] state freely
Examples "The teacher professed that he was not generous when it came to giving good grades" Related terms |
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[ verb ] take vows, as in religious order
Examples "she professed herself as a nun" Related terms |
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