Definition of Profess

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Profess

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.

To set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to put on or present an appearance of.

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.

To take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess.

To declare friendship.

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Profess Quotations

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
Frederick Douglass

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
John Quincy Adams

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.
John W. Gardner

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
William Hazlitt

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
Thomas de Quincey

No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.
Mark Rothko

We must Think what we Say, and Mean what we Profess.
Mary Astell

There are any number of people who profess to be good Christian people who are willing to believe all kinds of things on suspicion. Now that is not the way the Bible directs for Christian people to do.
John Harvey Kellogg

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Profess Translations

profess in Afrikaans is bieg
profess in Danish is bekende
profess in Dutch is bekennen, biechten, erkennen
profess in French is avouer, confesser
profess in Portuguese is professe

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