| profess | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. profess | practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about.; "She professes organic chemistry" |
| ~ claim | assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing.; "He claimed that he killed the burglar" |
| v. (communication) | 2. profess | confess one's faith in, or allegiance to.; "The terrorists professed allegiance to their country"; "he professes to be a Communist" |
| ~ declare | state emphatically and authoritatively.; "He declared that he needed more money to carry out the task he was charged with" |
| v. (communication) | 3. concede, confess, profess | admit (to a wrongdoing).; "She confessed that she had taken the money" |
| ~ acknowledge, admit | declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of.; "He admitted his errors"; "She acknowledged that she might have forgotten" |
| ~ fess up, make a clean breast of, own up | admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error.; "the writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting" |
| v. (communication) | 4. profess | state freely.; "The teacher professed that he was not generous when it came to giving good grades" |
| ~ declare | state emphatically and authoritatively.; "He declared that he needed more money to carry out the task he was charged with" |
| v. (communication) | 5. profess | receive into a religious order or congregation. |
| ~ profess | take vows, as in religious order.; "she professed herself as a nun" |
| ~ admit, take on, accept, take | admit into a group or community.; "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member" |
| v. (communication) | 6. profess | take vows, as in religious order.; "she professed herself as a nun" |
| ~ vow | make a vow; promise.; "He vowed never to drink alcohol again" |
| ~ take the veil | become a nun.; "The young woman took the veil after her fiance died" |
| ~ profess | receive into a religious order or congregation. |
| v. (communication) | 7. pretend, profess | state insincerely.; "He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt"; "She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber"; "She pretends to be an expert on wine" |
| ~ claim | assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing.; "He claimed that he killed the burglar" |
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