Definitions from Wiktionary (profess)

▸ 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:  (ambitransitive) 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).
▸ Also see profess

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