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.

Compare profess with other words:

convey vs. profess

profess vs. prowess

process vs. profess

disclose vs. profess

profess vs. promulgate

avow vs. profess

profess vs. profession

confess vs. profess

profess vs. propound

profess vs. purport

proclaim vs. profess

pretender vs. profess

knowledge vs. profess

profess vs. teach

claim vs. profess

adherence vs. profess

affirm vs. profess

assert vs. profess

declare vs. profess

administer vs. profess

profess vs. vow

profess vs. professor

creed vs. profess