intransitive verb. To affirm openly; declare or claim.

intransitive verb. To make a pretense of; pretend.

intransitive verb. To practice as a profession or claim knowledge of.

intransitive verb. To affirm belief in.

intransitive verb. To receive into a religious order or congregation.

intransitive verb. To make an open affirmation.

intransitive verb. To take the vows of a religious order or congregation.

To declare openly; make open declaration of; avow or acknowledge; own freely; affirm.

To acknowledge or own publicly; also, to lay claim openly to the character of.

To affirm faith in or allegiance to: as, to profess Christianity.

To make a show of; make protestations of; make a pretense of; pretend.

To announce publicly one's skill in, as a science or a profession; declare one's self versed in: as, to profess surgery.

In the Rom. Cath. and Anglican churches, to receive into a religious order by profession.

To present the appearance of.

Synonyms and To declare, allege, aver, avouch.

To lay claim to.

To declare openly; make any declaration or assertion.

To enter into the religious state by public declaration or profession.

To declare or pretend friendship.

transitive verb. 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.

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

transitive verb. 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)

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

intransitive verb. To declare friendship.

verb. state freely

verb. practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about

verb. admit (to a wrongdoing)

verb. confess one's faith in, or allegiance to

verb. take vows, as in religious order

verb. state insincerely

verb. receive into a religious order or congregation

"For instance, when these churchmen again profess and put their signatures to those anti-liberal documents, then we know that they too have got out of their Hegelianism."

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