meaning of professes
1. To make open declaration of, as of ones knowledge, belief, action, etc. ; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely.
2. To set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to put on or present an appearance of.
3. To present to knowledge of, to proclaim ones self versed in; to make ones self a teacher or practitioner of, to set up as an authority respecting; to declare (ones self to be such); as, he professes surgery; to profess ones self a physician.
4. To take a profession upon ones self by a public declaration; to confess.
5. To declare friendship.
6. state insincerely; "He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt"; "She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber"; "She pretends to be an expert on
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