Definitions for professed

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IPA: /prəˈfɛst/

Professed is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 327 anagrams from letters in professed (deefoprss).

Definitions for professed

adjective

1. avowed; acknowledged.
2. professing to be qualified; professional, rather than amateur.
3. having taken the vows of, or been received into, a religious order.
4. alleged; pretended.

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 professed

1300-50; Middle English (in religious sense) Medieval Latin profess(us) (special use of Latin professus, past participle of profitērī to declare publicly, equivalent to pro- Examples for professed

As a professed bi-sexual, Evans is misunderstood by those who find her choices offensive.

A few of these along the coast had been weaned from their wicked ways and professed and called themselves Christians.

Henry professed to be pleased that she had accepted his ideas so completely.

He was professed as a Redemptorist in 1950, and ordained a priest seven years later.

And by the way, if we really are just a colony of Europe, where did the rock and roll she professed to love so much come from?

Though he professed to like Philip, yet he saw but little of him.

It was as if a professed unbeliever in ghosts should be frightened by a ghost story.

He was baptised in the Ouse, and became a professed member of the Baptist congregation.

Joe Biden and John McCain professed undying love and loyalty for each other, even though, as Biden noted, “I drive him crazy.”

"And you professed to be telling me everything interesting," he reproached her.