Definitions for profess

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profess pro·fess

Spelling: [pruh-fes]

IPA: /prəˈfɛs/

Profess is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 154 anagrams from letters in profess (efoprss).

Definitions for profess

verb (used with object)

1. to lay claim to, often insincerely; pretend to:
2. to declare openly; announce or affirm; avow or acknowledge:
3. to affirm faith in or allegiance to (a religion, God, etc.).
4. to declare oneself skilled or expert in; claim to have knowledge of; make (a thing) one's profession or business.
5. to teach as a professor:
6. to receive or admit into a religious order.

verb (used without object)

1. to make a profession, avowal, or declaration.
2. to take the vows of a religious order.

Origin of profess

1400-50; late Middle English; back formation from professed

Examples for profess

To them, a politician is supposed to play it safe and profess as his goals only those things that are potentially attainable.

I cannot profess sorrow for that, nor irresolution in that, nor shame in that.

Those who profess to know him well, display dismay that he could have such an extraordinary lapse in discipline and control.

I conjure you by that which you profess, (how'er you come to know it,) answer me to what I ask you.

Then one daring, possibly planted, spectator interrupted the show to profess her crush.

Not that I profess to know anything either about Hegel or Schopenhauer.

But will his poetic voice that you profess to love so much change now that his political voice has?

Similarly, the thirty-nine framers at Philadelphia were allowed to profess their faith even in the public square.

In vain, dear Caroline, you urge me to think; I profess only to feel.

They wanted so much attending to, and she did not profess to open her house to them.