'Profess' definitions:
Definition of 'profess'
From: WordNet
verb
Practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about; "She professes organic chemistry"
verb
Confess one's faith in, or allegiance to; "The terrorists professed allegiance to their country"; "he professes to be a Communist"
verb
Admit (to a wrongdoing); "She confessed that she had taken the money" [syn: concede, profess, confess]
verb
State freely; "The teacher professed that he was not generous when it came to giving good grades"
verb
Receive into a religious order or congregation
verb
Take vows, as in religious order; "she professed herself as a nun"
verb
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]
Definition of 'Profess'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The best and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to put on or present an appearance of. [1913 Webster]
- I do profess to be no less than I seem. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Profess'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To declare friendship. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'profess'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- act,
- act a part,
- affect,
- affirm,
- allege,
- announce,
- annunciate,
- argue,
- assert,
- assever,
- asseverate,
- assume,
- aver,
- avouch,
- avow,
- bluff,
- claim,
- confess,
- confirm,
- contend,
- counterfeit,
- cover up,
- declare,
- depose,
- dissemble,
- dissimulate,
- enunciate,
- express,
- express the belief,
- fake,
- feign,
- four-flush,
- gammon,
- have,
- hold,
- insist,
- issue a manifesto,
- lay down,
- let on,
- let on like,
- maintain,
- make a pretense,
- make as if,
- make believe,
- make like,
- manifesto,
- offer,
- play,
- play a part,
- play possum,
- playact,
- predicate,
- present,
- pretend,
- pretext,
- proclaim,
- proffer,
- pronounce,
- protest,
- protest too much,
- purport,
- put,
- put forward,
- put it,
- put on,
- say,
- set down,
- set forth,
- sham,
- simulate,
- speak,
- speak out,
- speak up,
- stand for,
- stand on,
- state,
- submit,
- swear,
- tender,
- utter,
- vow,
- warrant