profess
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- IPA /pɹəˈfɛs/
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profess verb
- To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order. (Chiefly in passive.)
- To declare oneself (to be something).
- To declare; to assert, affirm.
- To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.
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confessconcedepreachadvocatepracticeavowdemonstratepractiseproclaimaffirmaverassertmanifestclaimsubscribedeclare
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