Professing
verb (used with object)
1.
to lay claim to, often insincerely; pretend to:
He professed extreme regret.
2.
to declare openly; announce or affirm; avow or acknowledge:
to profess one’s satisfaction.
3.
to affirm faith in or allegiance to (a religion, God, etc.).
4.
to declare oneself skilled or expert in; claim to have knowledge of; make (a thing) one’s profession or business.
5.
to teach as a professor:
She professes comparative literature.
6.
to receive or admit into a religious order.
verb (used without object)
7.
to make a profession, avowal, or declaration.
8.
to take the vows of a religious order.
verb
1.
to affirm or announce (something, such as faith); acknowledge: to profess ignorance, to profess a belief in God
2.
(transitive) to claim (something, such as a feeling or skill, or to be or do something), often insincerely or falsely: to profess to be a skilled driver
3.
to receive or be received into a religious order, as by taking vows
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