What's the difference between proclaim and profess?

Proclaim


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make known by public announcement; to give wide publicity to; to publish abroad; to promulgate; to declare; as, to proclaim war or peace.
  • (v. t.) To outlaw by public proclamation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With respect to Sir Jimmy, those who proclaim the age of the train rarely get it right.
  • (2) President Obama on Thursday proclaimed to be against endless wars, even as he announced that the US will continue to wage one.
  • (3) The soiree's proclaimed objective is to build a "caucus of common sense" with Senate Republicans.
  • (4) The site's manifesto proclaims that "the goal … is to break down the wall of omertà and silence that protects the mafia … We call on all citizens: 'if you know something, say something'".
  • (5) Everywhere I go the people proclaim me the president of Congo."
  • (6) Cocaine was considered incapable of producing dependence in 1980 but was recently proclaimed the drug of greatest national health concern.
  • (7) When it was first licensed for the European food market six years ago, baobab was – with a certain inevitability –proclaimed a superfood to rival quinoa, blueberries and kale.
  • (8) We need to show the reality we are living in.” The protesters carried banners, proclaiming: “Obama’s trip to Cuba isn’t for fun.
  • (9) He was a self-proclaimed cleric, though he had no formal qualifications or any evidence to support his claims.
  • (10) Like Demirtaş, Erdoğan proclaimed his desire to allow greater freedom and self-expression not just for his own constituency, but for all neglected citizens of the republic – including the Kurds, who in the mid-2000s voted for him in large numbers.
  • (11) Rebels had previously claimed they lacked weapons to strike at that range, but a spokesman for the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic told AFP its fighters had shot down the two aircraft.
  • (12) Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic in 1949 from the rostrum – shortly before ordering the expansion of the square.
  • (13) Republican convention live: roll call vote to officially nominate Trump begins Read more Crossing the threshold of 1,237 votes, Trump officially became the Republican party’s nominee for president, as the stage in Cleveland was illuminated with a message proclaiming: “Over the Top”.
  • (14) There is, scientists proclaim, a crisis in biomedical research.
  • (15) Others are taking the rally at face value and planning to turn up with banners proclaiming themselves part of the reasonable majority, liberal or conservative, against the particular brand of insanity that has swept America since Barack Obama entered the White House.
  • (16) But, as the church itself proclaims, redemption is always possible for a sinner.
  • (17) His supporters sport T-shirts proclaiming "100% Zulu Boy".
  • (18) Instead they said their role was to prevent weapons reaching the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic".
  • (19) Sometimes these slogans proclaim the wearer's enjoyment of football ("Keep calm and play football!")
  • (20) August 1995 After poorly contested elections, the EPRDF swept to power; the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia was proclaimed, and Meles became Ethiopia's first prime minister.

Profess


Definition:

  • (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.
  • (v. t.) To set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to put on or present an appearance of.
  • (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.
  • (v. i.) To take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess.
  • (v. i.) To declare friendship.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The inquiry found the law enforcement agencies routinely fail to record the professions of those whose communications data records they access under Ripa.
  • (2) Significant changes have occurred within the profession of pharmacy in the past few decades which have led to loss of function, social power and status.
  • (3) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
  • (4) This will help nursing grow as a profession, particularly through entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial efforts.
  • (5) Beginning with its foundation by Charles Godon in 1900 he describes the growth of the Federation as an organization of the dental profession which continued despite the interruption of two world wars.
  • (6) The position that it is time for the nursing profession to develop programs leading to the N.D. degree, or professional doctorate, (for the college graduates) derives from consideration of the nature of nursing, the contributions that nurses can make to development of an exemplary health care system, and from the recognized need for nursing to emerge as a full-fledged profession.
  • (7) Dawson argued that the health profession has a history of thinking that social care can be "subsumed by medical decisions" when in reality they are two different cultures.
  • (8) Several of the profession's objectives directly parallel those of adult day-care--to enable individuals to function as independently as possible despite their physical and mental limitations.
  • (9) The proposition put forward in this paper is that standards of nursing practice can only be assured if the profession is able to find ways of responding to the intuitions and gut reactions of its practitioners.
  • (10) Justice Hiley later suggested the conduct required by a doctor outside of his profession, as Chapman was describing it, was perhaps a “broad generality” and not specific enough “to create an ethical obligation.” “It’s no broader than the Hippocratic oath,” Chapman said in her reply.
  • (11) Two years later, the Guardian could point to reforms that owed much to what Ashley called his "bloody-mindedness" in five areas: non-disclosure of victims' names in rape cases; the rights of battered wives; the ending of fuel disconnections for elderly people; a royal commission on the legal profession; and civil liability for damages such as those due to thalidomide victims.
  • (12) But like officials from most other countries represented here – with the notable exception of Britain – Chernishova acknowledges a "general consensus" in her country, in both the media and among the legal profession, on the value of the court's judgments.
  • (13) Until the dental profession defines quality to include psychological, sociologic, and economic factors and establishes measurable standards of performance, dental quality assurance cannot exist in any meaningful way.
  • (14) These findings highlight limitations of the data supplied and suggest that the usefulness of this enviable and unique data source could be enhanced if the medical profession took greater care in clearly stating an International Classification of Diseases diagnosis in a patient's hospital record.
  • (15) An adequate mechanism to implement recertification can emerge only from the profession itself, working through the American Board of Medical Specialties and specialty boards.
  • (16) The duration and severity of the pulmonary abscess, the method of surgical treatment, the lapse of time after the operation, the course of the restorative processes, complications and concomitant diseases, the degree or respiratory and circulatory insufficiency, the patients' age, profession, and the conditions and character of work are taken into account during examination.
  • (17) Alice Wade, a 27-year-old self-professed whiskey aficionado, says she started drinking whiskey in college.
  • (18) One factor contributing to this problem has been the absence of courses on motor vehicle injury from the curriculums of the health professions schools.
  • (19) Directing volunteer nursing expertise and services can greatly benefit the community, the nursing profession, and the nurse.
  • (20) The shock death of the 65-year-old designer in Miami on Thursday has brought renewed focus on the chronic lack of female representation in the profession’s upper ranks in the UK.