Profess
verb
To state or announce something in a public or formal way.
He professes to be an expert in his field.
Often appears as...
- profess love
- profess innocence
verb
To claim to have a certain skill or knowledge usually without right.
He professed a large knowledge of literature, though it was clear he hadn't read these books.
Often appears as...
- profess knowledge
- profess skill
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Disapproving
verb
To follow a particular career or profession.
She professed medicine for several years before moving into research.
Often appears as...
- profess medicine
- profess law
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Formal
Academic
verb
In religious context, to affirm one's faith or allegiance to.
The religious devotee professed his faith in the divine power.
Often appears as...
- profess faith
- profess allegiance
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Religious
verb
To state or announce something in a public or formal way.
He professes to be an expert in his field.
Often appears as...
- profess love
- profess innocence
verb
To claim to have a certain skill or knowledge usually without right.
He professed a large knowledge of literature, though it was clear he hadn't read these books.
Often appears as...
- profess knowledge
- profess skill
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To follow a particular career or profession.
She professed medicine for several years before moving into research.
Often appears as...
- profess medicine
- profess law
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
verb
In religious context, to affirm one's faith or allegiance to.
The religious devotee professed his faith in the divine power.
Often appears as...
- profess faith
- profess allegiance
Usage tips
Religious
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Public Assertion
Used when someone makes an open or official statement about their beliefs or intentions.
The CEO professed the company's commitment to environmental sustainability.
Pro Tip 2/2Overt Declaration
Often involves expressing feelings or opinions forcefully and so everyone knows.
She professed her unwavering loyalty to the team in front of the crowd.
Pro Tip 1/2Public Assertion
Used when someone makes an open or official statement about their beliefs or intentions.
The CEO professed the company's commitment to environmental sustainability.
Pro Tip 2/2Overt Declaration
Often involves expressing feelings or opinions forcefully and so everyone knows.
She professed her unwavering loyalty to the team in front of the crowd.
Pro Tip 1/2Public Assertion
Used when someone makes an open or official statement about their beliefs or intentions.
The CEO professed the company's commitment to environmental sustainability.
Pro Tip 2/2Overt Declaration
Often involves expressing feelings or opinions forcefully and so everyone knows.
She professed her unwavering loyalty to the team in front of the crowd.
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Why Shakespeare loved...
for many of the same reasons that we look to poetry in our own lives. Feeling passionate, introspective, or momentous. Whether it's Hamlet pondering his existence, or Romeo professing his love, the characters switch to iambic pentameter when speaking about their emotions
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any related technical problems you can see this giraffe how is feeding males normally they feed from the top and if you can check the females they've got a little bit of a slight different feeding behavior they profess to bend their neck
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since I finished high school so well it's taken all of that time to be able to have such a you know well not a bigger set of experience of all these different creatures but I still you know I don't profess to know anything anyway
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safely is huge huge deal and we believe this to be probably the most dangerous area the challenge is to betray to people how difficult it is to work down in that environment walking on the sea ice - crossing professed terrain -
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moving showing that it's not sleeping anymore we are so very lucky so by this time of the day beautiful case such as this ones they profess to just rest and rest and they normally do what he is
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Why we choke under...
whether or not we can put our best foot forward when it matters most. Take math as an example. That's right, I said math. Lots of people profess to choke or are anxious about doing math,
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profess trees that full of thorns or spines because they they have this Cup nest so that they need they can't protect themselves from predators so what they do is they make it difficult
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I can hear that noise from here so the highness they also profess to come down here and just play when they are cleaning themselves so not all only bears it has done even the highness
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Who are you, really? The...
And we enact those free traits. I'm an introvert, but I have a core project, which is to profess. I'm a professor. And I adore my students, and I adore my field.
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a child of the universe the lions don't specifically target an animal after the Buffalo they target they profess
Video examples
Why Shakespeare loved...
for many of the same reasons that we look to poetry in our own lives. Feeling passionate, introspective, or momentous. Whether it's Hamlet pondering his existence, or Romeo professing his love, the characters switch to iambic pentameter when speaking about their emotions
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 352 PIPE...
any related technical problems you can see this giraffe how is feeding males normally they feed from the top and if you can check the females they've got a little bit of a slight different feeding behavior they profess to bend their neck
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 174 PIPE...
since I finished high school so well it's taken all of that time to be able to have such a you know well not a bigger set of experience of all these different creatures but I still you know I don't profess to know anything anyway
Video examples
Living a Life on Ice PIPE...
safely is huge huge deal and we believe this to be probably the most dangerous area the challenge is to betray to people how difficult it is to work down in that environment walking on the sea ice - crossing professed terrain -
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 198 PIPE...
moving showing that it's not sleeping anymore we are so very lucky so by this time of the day beautiful case such as this ones they profess to just rest and rest and they normally do what he is
Video examples
Why we choke under...
whether or not we can put our best foot forward when it matters most. Take math as an example. That's right, I said math. Lots of people profess to choke or are anxious about doing math,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 337 PIPE...
profess trees that full of thorns or spines because they they have this Cup nest so that they need they can't protect themselves from predators so what they do is they make it difficult
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 234 PIPE...
I can hear that noise from here so the highness they also profess to come down here and just play when they are cleaning themselves so not all only bears it has done even the highness
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Who are you, really? The...
And we enact those free traits. I'm an introvert, but I have a core project, which is to profess. I'm a professor. And I adore my students, and I adore my field.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 276 PIPE...
a child of the universe the lions don't specifically target an animal after the Buffalo they target they profess
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Joseph Conrad
Polish Novelist
For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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Thomas de Quincey
English Author
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
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Alice Walker
American Author
Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.
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Juan Goytisolo
Spanish Poet
As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with clarity, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.
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Rotimi
American Actor
Spirituality is everything for me because I've based my life on that: finding the positive out of everything and professing what I want and manifesting it in my mind.
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Janet Reno
American Public Servant
There are those who profess to support law enforcement but who have attempted to undermine the efforts of hard-working officers who make difficult decisions.
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David Bowie
English Musician
I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus
American Actress
I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.
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Elbert Hubbard
American Writer
Live truth instead of professing it.
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Joseph Conrad
Polish Novelist
For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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Thomas de Quincey
English Author
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
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Alice Walker
American Author
Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.
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Juan Goytisolo
Spanish Poet
As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with clarity, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.
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Rotimi
American Actor
Spirituality is everything for me because I've based my life on that: finding the positive out of everything and professing what I want and manifesting it in my mind.
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Janet Reno
American Public Servant
There are those who profess to support law enforcement but who have attempted to undermine the efforts of hard-working officers who make difficult decisions.
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David Bowie
English Musician
I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus
American Actress
I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.
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Elbert Hubbard
American Writer
Live truth instead of professing it.
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