- profession, professing - an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion; "a profession of disagreement"
--1 is a kind of avowal, avouchment, affirmation
Derived form: verb profess2
- profess - practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about; "She professes organic chemistry"
--1 is one way to claim
Sample sentence:
They profess to move
- profess - confess one's faith in, or allegiance to; "The terrorists professed allegiance to the Muslim faith"; "he professes to be a Communist"
--2 is one way to declare
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun professing1
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- concede, profess, confess - admit, make a clean breast of; "She confessed that she had taken the money"
--3 is one way to admit, acknowledge
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun profession3
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- profess - state freely; "The teacher professed that he was not generous when it came to giving good grades"
--4 is one way to declare
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- profess - receive into a religious order or congregation
--5 is one way to accept, admit, take, take on
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- profess - take vows, as in religious order; "she professed herself as a nun"
--6 is one way to vow
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun profession4
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
- profess, pretend - state insincerely; "He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt"; "She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber"; "She pretends to be an expert on wine"
--7 is one way to claim
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- profess - confess one's faith in, or allegiance to; "The terrorists professed allegiance to the Muslim faith"; "he professes to be a Communist"