Crossword clues for professed
professed
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Professed \Pro*fessed"\, a. Openly declared, avowed, acknowledged, or claimed; as, a professed foe; a professed tyrant; a professed Christian.
The professed (R. C. Ch.), a certain class among the Jesuits bound by a special vow. See the note under Jesuit.
Profess \Pro*fess"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Professed; p. pr. & vb. n. Professing.] [F. prof[`e]s, masc., professe, fem., professed (monk or nun), L. professus, p. p. of profiteri to profess; pro before, forward + fateri to confess, own. See Confess.]
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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. ``Hear me profess sincerely.''
--Shak.The best and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.
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To set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to put on or present an appearance of.
I do profess to be no less than I seem.
--Shak. 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"openly declared," 1560s, past participle adjective from profess. Earlier in a more specific sense of "having taken vows of a religious order" (late 14c.). Related: Professedly.
Wiktionary
profess to be qualified. alt. profess to be qualified. v
(en-past of: profess)
WordNet
adj. professing to be qualified; "a professed philosopher" [syn: professed(a)]
claimed with intent to deceive; "his professed intentions" [syn: professed(a)]
openly declared as such; "an avowed enemy"; "her professed love of everything about that country"; "McKinley was assassinated by a professed anarchist" [syn: avowed(a), professed(a)]
Usage examples of "professed".
Executives at Stern Corporation, also interviewed, professed ignorance of any illegal or improper dealings and maintained that antisense research had been a field of particular interest at the company for a number of years.
When it began to thunder and lighten, however, and to grow black in the northeast, Brith professed recurring symptoms of piety.
Indeed, professed to have outgrown nationalism, and to stand for political and cultural world unity.
Lanargh offered a wider range of services than she had ever imagined, from palmists and professed witches all the way to esteemed phrenologists, equipped with calipers, cranial tapes, and ornate charts.
At first he had identified the style as medieval European, but he decided that it was more like Tudor when he started along the lane that professed to be the main street, for there he saw older structures, whose beams had turned black and pargeting white.
Heppner professed to be a government agent sent here to straighten the matter out, and you were to give Borrodaile a hundred dollars for a quitclaim deed to the mine.
But the graphics and artwork were upbeat and colorful, and I saw no hint of the dark, judgmental doctrine that Gordon Spangler had professed in his letter confessing the murders.
The conversation became at once professional after the briefest preliminaries, and he would stand twirling a sweet-scented sprig in his fingers, and make suggestive jokes, perhaps about her faith in a too persistent course of thoroughwort elixir, in which my landlady professed such firm belief as sometimes to endanger the life and usefulness of worthy neighbors.
He is a professed tribalist of the first order who does not wish to live within his tribe.
Duc de Vitry, the answering devotion professed by the notary was as insincere as the disinterested attachment to her lover displayed by the whilom maid of honour.
Sir Alexander Abernethy still professed allegiance to the deposed John Balliol, and bitterly resented Bruce assuming the Scottish crown.
He and Adams had known each other for years, and Lovell professed only the warmest regard for Adams, as well as for Abigail.
What John and Abigail Adams may have thought of this from the man who had professed to believe that all men are created equal is not known.
He felt, Adams wrote, as though he were receding slowly into the background, yet professed to mind not at all.
Jefferson was the inevitable and ideal choice to replace Washington, Adams professed to be tired of politics.