profess

Definitions

1. 1transitive verb

   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.

2. 2transitive verb

   To set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to put on or present an appearance of.

3. 3transitive verb

   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.

4. 4intransitive verb

   To take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess.

5. 5intransitive verb

   To declare friendship.

6. 6verb

   state insincerely

   "He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt"

   "She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber"

   Synonyms

   pretend
7. 7verb

   confess one's faith in, or allegiance to

   "The terrorists professed allegiance to their country"

   "he professes to be a Communist"

8. 8verb

   admit (to a wrongdoing)

   "She confessed that she had taken the money"

   Synonyms

   concedeconfess
9. 9verb

   practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about

   "She professes organic chemistry"

10. 10verb

    take vows, as in religious order

    "she professed herself as a nun"

11. 11verb

    receive into a religious order or congregation

12. 12verb

    state freely

    "The teacher professed that he was not generous when it came to giving good grades"