profess.
To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order.
Meaning & usage
To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order.
To declare oneself (to be something).
They've professed themselves delighted with the results.
To declare; to assert, affirm.
Having professed her belief in the remedy, she had little choice but to try it.
To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.
Many profess to despise what secretly they hunger after.
To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).
To work as a professor of; to teach.
To claim to have knowledge or understanding of (a given area of interest, subject matter).
Where this word comes from
From Old French professer, and its source, the participle stem of Latin profitērī, from pro- + fatērī (“to confess, acknowledge”).
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