profess: Bedeutung und Definitionen

To affirm openly; declare or claim: "a physics major [who] professes to be a stickler when it comes to data” ( Gina Maranto).

To make a pretense of; pretend: "top officials who were deeply involved with the arms sales but later professed ignorance of them” ( David Johnston).

To practice as a profession or claim knowledge of: profess medicine.

To teach (a subject) as a professor: profess literature.

To affirm belief in: profess Catholicism.

To receive into a religious order or congregation.

To make an open affirmation.

To take the vows of a religious order or congregation.