Profess(v. i.) To take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess.
Profess(v. i.) To declare friendship.
Profess(v. t.) 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.
Profess(v. t.) To set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to put on or present an appearance of.
Profess(v. t.) 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.
Professed(imp. & p. p.) of Profess
Professedly(adv.) By profession.
Professing(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Profess
Profession(v.) The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith.
Profession(v.) That which one professed; a declaration; an avowal; a claim; as, his professions are insincere.
Profession(v.) That of which one professed knowledge; the occupation, if not mechanical, agricultural, or the like, to which one devotes one's self; the business which one professes to understand, and to follow for subsistence; calling; vocation; employment; as, the profession of arms; the profession of a clergyman, lawyer, or physician; the profession of lecturer on chemistry.
Profession(v.) The collective body of persons engaged in a calling; as, the profession distrust him.
Profession(v.) The act of entering, or becoming a member of, a religious order.
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