ALL meanings of profess
pro·fess
P p - verb with object profess to lay claim to, often insincerely; pretend to: He professed extreme regret. 1
- verb with object profess to declare openly; announce or affirm; avow or acknowledge: to profess one's satisfaction. 1
- verb with object profess to affirm faith in or allegiance to (a religion, God, etc.). 1
- verb with object profess to declare oneself skilled or expert in; claim to have knowledge of; make (a thing) one's profession or business. 1
- verb with object profess to teach as a professor: She professes comparative literature. 1
- verb with object profess to receive or admit into a religious order. 1
- verb without object profess to make a profession, avowal, or declaration. 1
- verb without object profess to take the vows of a religious order. 1
- intransitive verb profess claim 1
- transitive verb profess declare 1
- transitive verb profess with clause: declare 1
- verb profess If you profess to do or have something, you claim that you do it or have it, often when you do not. 0
- verb profess If you profess a feeling, opinion, or belief, you express it. 0
- verb profess to affirm or announce (something, such as faith); acknowledge 0
- verb profess to claim (something, such as a feeling or skill, or to be or do something), often insincerely or falsely 0
- verb profess to receive or be received into a religious order, as by taking vows 0
- verb transitive profess to make an open declaration of; affirm 0
- verb transitive profess to claim to have (some feeling, an interest, knowledge, etc.) 0
- verb transitive profess to practice as one's profession 0
- verb transitive profess to declare one's belief in 0
- verb transitive profess to accept into a religious order 0
- intransitive verb profess to make profession, or affirmation 0
- intransitive verb profess to make one's profession (sense 4) 0