Usually means: Declare or claim openly, confidently.
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  1. profess: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. profess: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. profess: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. profess: Collins English Dictionary
  5. profess: Vocabulary.com
  6. Profess, profess: Wordnik
  7. profess: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. profess: Wiktionary
  9. profess: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. profess: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. profess: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. profess: Free Dictionary
  13. profess: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. profess: Dictionary/thesaurus
  15. profess: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. profess: Rhymezone
  17. Profess: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. profess: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Profess, profess: Dictionary.com
  20. profess: Online Etymology Dictionary
  21. profess: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  22. Profess: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

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  1. profess: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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(Note: See professed as well.)

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verb:  (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order.
verb:  (reflexive) To declare oneself (to be something).
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To declare; to assert, affirm.
verb:  (transitive) To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.
verb:  (transitive) To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To work as a professor of; to teach.
verb:  (transitive, now rare) To claim to have knowledge or understanding of (a given area of interest, subject matter).

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