'Professing' definitions:
Definition of 'professing'
(from WordNet)
noun
An open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion; "a profession of disagreement" [syn: profession, professing]
Definition of 'Professing'
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]