Thesaurus: profess

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1. 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.
2. v. t. To set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to put on or present an appearance of.
3. 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.
4. v. i. To take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess.
5. v. i. To declare friendship.
6. v. practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about
7. v. confess one's faith in, or allegiance to
8. v. admit (to a wrongdoing)
9. v. state freely
10. v. receive into a religious order or congregation
11. v. take vows, as in religious order
12. v. state insincerely