Profess

Definition: Profess

Profess

Verb

1. Claim to be proficient.

2. Confess one's faith in, or allegiance to; "The terrorists professed allegiance to the Muslim faith"; "he professes to be a Communist".

3. Make a clean breast of; "She confessed that she had taken the money".

4. As in religious orders; take a vow.

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Date "profess" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Note: Profess \Pro*fess"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Professed; present participle verb or noun Professing.]. (references)

Tips from 1870

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Synonyms: Profess

Affirmation

Verb: assert; make an assertion; Noun: have one's say; say, affirm, predicate, declare, state; protest, profess.

Crosswords: Profess

Profess you love the Hov', and I'll never let you down (I Just Wanna Love U (Give it 2 Me); performing artist: Jay-Z)

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Books

• Business and Management Skills: A Handbook for the It Service Management Profess (reference)

• Die Rechtswirkungen der klösterlichen Profess : eine rechtsgeschichtliche Untersuchung der monastischen Profess und ihrer Rechtswirkungen unter Berücksichtigung des Staatskirchenrechts (reference)

• I profess this crime : the brotherhood of the silk handcuffs : a novel (reference)

• Im Writing Well Tech Profess (reference)

• Model the Complete Guide to Becoming a Profess (reference)

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A trip to the royal barber - all Pollywogs must profess a love of Shellbacks A 1985 crossing of the line on the MALCOLM BALDRIGE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

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We do not profess to construct planets

Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live

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Civil Liberties

Pakistan

The suspended Constitution provided for freedom of religion, and stated that adequate provisions shall be made for minorities to profess and practice their religions freely; however, the Government limits freedom of religion. (references)

Finland

Nontraditional religious groups freely profess and propagate their beliefs. (references)

China

Foreigners legally are barred from conducting missionary activities, but foreign Christians currently teaching English and other subjects on college campuses openly profess their faith with minimum interference from authorities as long as their proselytizing is low key. (references)

Political Economy

Swaziland

Although the Government continued formally to profess an intention to reform the current system, it took no action to do so. In August the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) issued its report with recommendations for a new constitution that concluded that most citizens want a continuation and strengthening of the current system. (references)

Eq. Guinea

In this nominally multi-party state, all major political parties profess to support multi-party democracy, and individual freedoms and liberties. (references)

Worker Rights

China

Most of these migrants profess to be temporary residents, but small businesses run by ethnic Han and Hui citizens (mostly restaurants and retail shops) predominate in almost all Tibetan cities. (references)

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Expressions using "profess": profess history ♦ profess medicine. Additional references.

Afrikaans

bieg (acknowledge, acknowledgement, admission, admit, confess, confession). (various references)

Albanian

pretendoj (allege, assume, claim, pretend), ushtroj (discipline, drill, ply, practise, pursue, train), tregoj (argue, bear, bespeak, betoken, bring out, connotate, connote, denote, designate, direct, display, establish, evidence, evince, exhibit, expose, express oneself, extend, finger, give away, indicate, infer, make out, manifest, narrate, note, point out, present, proclaim, produce, prove, read, recite, relate, show, show round, spiel, spin out, tell, tell tales, yield), shpreh (bid, breathe, clothe, couch, embody, express, express oneself, extend, formulate, give voice to, import, outspeak, phrase, put, put forward, say, speak, utter), shfaq (bear, display, evince, exert, exhibit, flash, indicate, manifest, outspeak, pour out, present, proclaim, put on, read off, show, testify), jap leksione, deklaroj (attest, claim, declare, lay down, proclaim, pronounce). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كابر (insist, stickle), ‏مارس مهنة, ‏علم (adudicate, advertise, advertize, advise, apprise, apprize, banner, bar, bunting, coach, cognizance, cognize, drill, educate, flag, indoctrinate, inform, instruct, know, knowledge, learning, let know, locate, mark, mark out, notify, post, read, scholarship, school, science, standard, teach, tell, tick), ‏صرح (avow, castle, certify, cut open, declare, edifice, outrival, palace, predicate, proclaim, represent, say, state, tower), ‏جاهر برآي, ‏إفتخر (boast, have a pride in, honor, honour, pride), ‏إحترف (metier, take up), ‏إعترف (acknowledge, admit, allow, avow, come clean, concede, confess, grant, own, own up, recognize, say), ‏أكد (accentuate, affirm, assert, asseverate, assure, aver, avouch, bear out, check up on, confirm, contend, corroborate, declare, double check, emphasize, predicate, proclaim, protest, punctuate, show, substantiate, swear, underline, underscore, vouch, warrant), ‏أعلن إيمانه, ‏أعلن (advertise, advertize, announce, avow, bill, blare, celebrate, count, declare, denote, enunciate, gazette, portend, predicate, proclaim, promulgate, pronounce, protest, publicize, publish, put out, report, represent, rule, show, sound, state, usher, vote), ‏دعا (allege, beckon, bid, call, claim, contend, enter a plea, feign, fetch, invite, name, plead, purport, recall, set up, summon, term, warn), ‏درس (case, classes, consideration, din into, elaborate, examine, excogitate, go over, instruction, learn, learning, lecture, lesson, period, read, read up, reading, study, talk over, teach, think out, tutor, view). (various references)

Bulgarian 

уверявам (affirm, assure, reassure, satisfy, warrant), упражнявам (drill, exercise, exert, pace, ply, practice, practise, pursue, rehearse, train), твърдя (affirm, allege, argue, assert, aver, avouch, charge, claim, maintain, predicate), заявявам (affirm, allege, assert, aver, avow, declare, enounce, maintain, predicate, proclaim, protest, set out, state), бивам приет в религиозен орден, професор съм, преструвам се (affect, dissemble, dissimulate, fake, feign, personate, pretend, put it on, put on an act, sham, simulate), претендирам (claim, pretend, purport), преподавам (learn, read, teach), правя се (affect, pretend), признавам (accept, accredit, acknowledge, admit, allow, avow, concede, confess, find, homologate, own, recognize, vote), приемам в религиозен орден, изповядвам (disembosom, shrive). (various references)

Chinese 

公开宣称 (Professed, Professing). (various references)

Czech

provozovat (barter, carry on, keep, prosecute), předstírat (affect, dissimulate, fake, feign, make believe, pretend, sham, simulate), přednášet (dissertate, lecture, read, recite), vyznat, vyjádřit (couch, embody, express, formulate, give, give voice to, put, state, utter, voice), hlásit se (adopt, come forward, own, register). (various references)

Danish

bekende (acknowledge, admit, confess). (various references)

Dutch

erkennen (accept, acknowledge, admit, confess, confirm, corroborate, receive, recognise, recognize, take, take in), biechten (acknowledge, admit, confess), bekennen (acknowledge, admit, confess). (various references)

Esperanto

konfesi (admit, confess). (various references)

Faeroese

vátta (acknowledge, admit, assert, attest, bear witness of, confess, confirm, corroborate, state, testify), ganga við (acknowledge, admit, confess). (various references)

Farsi 

تدریس کردن (Lesson, Prelect), اظهارکردن (Affirm, Allude, Import, State, Suggest, Swan), ادعاکردن (Acclaim, Assert, Claim, Contend), ابرازایمان کردن . (various references)

Finnish

tunnustaa (acknowledge, admit, confess, make a confession, own, recognize). (various references)

French

confesser, avouer. (various references)

Frisian

bychtsje (acknowledge, admit, confess), bekenne (acknowledge, admit, confess). (various references)

German

zugeben (acknowledge, add, admint, admit, admit to, agree, concede, confess, give as an extra, own, own up to, perform as an encore, recognize, throw in, to admit to, to concede, to confess, to own, to recognize that), vorgeben (allege, give as an excuse, Masquerade, pretend, purport, sham, to pretend), versichern (affirm, assure, ensure, indemnify, insure, protest, reassure, to affirm, to assure, to ensure, to insure, to reassure), sich bekennen zu (declare oneself for), kundtun (make known, proclaim, ventilate), heucheln (be a hypocrite, dissemble, feign, pretend, sham, simulate), gestehen (acknowledge, admit, avow, confess, to confess), erklären (account for, affirm, announce, authenticate, avow, clarify, declare, explain, expound, proclaim, pronounce, state, to account for, to explain, to expound, to meld, to state), eingestehen (acknowledge, admit, confess, recognize, to admit to, to own, to recognize that), bekunden (evince, express, manifest, show, state, testify to, to evince), beichten (acknowledge, admit, confess, shrifts, shrive, to confess, to shrive, unburden), anerkennen (accept, acclaim, acknowledge, admit, allow, appreciate, confess, for a long time, homologate, honor, honour, own, praise, recognize, respect, to recognize). (various references)

Greek 

υποκρίνομαι (cant, counterfeit, dissemble, dissimulate, feign, pretend, simulate), επαγγέλομαι, ομολογώ (acknowledge, admit, avow, come clean, confess, own). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תימר (boast, pretend), ל�"�'ול (raise the banner, support), לטעון (allege, argue, assert, claim, contend, plead, state, submit). (various references)

Hungarian

vall (confess, to blow the gaff, to evidence, to profess, to spill one's guts), tanít (instruct, lecture, school, taught, teach, to edify, to educate, to instruct, to profess, to teach), nyilatkozik (have one's say, to commend, to commit oneself to sg, to declare, to pussyfoot), kijelent (assert, declare, enunciate, pronounce, say, set forth, state, tell, to assert, to asseverate, to declare, to enunciate, to pronounce, to state, to vow). (various references)

Icelandic

játa (acknowledge, admit, confess). (various references)

Indonesian

menyatakan (acknowledge, enounce, enunciate, formulate, reveal). (various references)

Italian

professare (declare), pretendere di, insegnare (acquaint, announce, inform, instruct, let know, report, teach), fingere di, esercitare (conduct, drill, exercise, exert, operate, ply, practice, practise, run, to bear, wield), dichiarare (adjudge, affirm, allege, aver, avouch, bid, certify, declare, declare oneself, explain, pronounce, protest, rule, state, to declare), confessare (acknowledge, admit, avouch, come clean, confess, own, shrive). (various references)

Malay

mengaku (acknowledge, admit, confess). (various references)

Manx

soiaghey magh (bed out, disposition, furnish, represent, set forth), lhiggey er (affectation, affectedness, counterfeit, dissimulate, dissimulation, feign, feigning, feint, make-believe, pose, pretence, pretend, sham, simulate, simulation), fockley magh (blurt, declare, proclaim, proclamation, promulgate, promulgation, pronounce, pronouncement, pronunciation), cliaghtey (acclimatization, acclimatize, custom, exercise, familiarization, familiarize, fashion, follow, follow as trade, formality, habit, habituate, institution, inure, practice, practise, prosecute, prosecution, rehearsal, rehearse, seasoning, train, usage). (various references)

Norwegian

tilstå (acknowledge, admit, confess). (various references)

Papiamen

rekonosé (acknowledge, admit, confess, recognize), konfesá (acknowledge, admit, confess). (various references)

Pig Latin

ofesspray.(various references)

Polish

przyznawać się (acknowledge, admit, confess), wyznawać (acknowledge, admit, confess). (various references)

Portuguese

professar (acknowledge, admit, confess), confessar (acknowledge, admit, avow, confess, own, own up, recognize, unbosom). (various references)

Romanian

profesa (practise), proclama (announce, bid, blazon, cry, declare, proclaim, publish, sound), preda (deliver, give, give up, render, surrender, teach, yield), practica (apply, employ, practise), fi profesor, declara (account, adjudge, avouch, classify, contract in, declare, enter, manifest, proclaim, pronounce, publish, remark, report, return, set forth, signify, sound, state, testify). (various references)

Russian 

обучать (discipline, educate, ground, instruct, qualify, school, teach), претендовать (claim, lay up claim, pretending), признавать (acknowledge, admit, avow, avowing, confess, espouse, give in, held [], homologate, plead, recognize), исповедовать (confess, shrive). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

predavati (discourse, prelect, teach), izjaviti (allege, assert, aver, declare, outspeak, utter), izjašnjavati se (outspeak). (various references)

Spanish

profesar (bear, exercise, practise, to bear), pretender (aim, allege, claim, mean, pretend, purport, to claim, woo), enseñar (chasten, chastise, civilize, educate, hold up, indicate, instruct, learn, point out, school, show, suggest, teach, train, tutor), ejercer (bear, exercise, exert, manage, perform, ply, practice, practise, prosecute, pursue, run, serve, use, wield), declarar de (allege, aver, bid), declarar (accede, acknowledge, adjudge, adjudicate, admit, agree, announce, come out, confess, consent, contract, declare, find, plead, proclaim, pronounce, register, return, set out, start, state, testify), confesar (acknowledge, admit, allow, avow, confess, own, own up, recognize, shrive, unburden), asegurar (adjust, affirm, anchor, assert, assure, beat up, belay, ensure, fasten, fix, guarantee, insure, latch, make certain, reeve, secure, tread in, underwrite, warrant). (various references)

Swedish

bekänna (acknowledge, admit, avow, come clean, confess, plead quilty). (various references)

Turkish

profesörlük yapmak, yapmak (accomplish, achieve, acquit oneself, act, architect, build, carry out, carve out, contrive, create, do, engineer, establish, execute, fashion, father, fulfil, fulfill, get, go over, go through, have, implement, land, make, perform, perpetrate, ply, practice, practise, produce, put on, put through, set, take, transact, turn out, weave), itiraf etmek (acknowledge, admit, allow, avouch, avow, avow oneself, beg, come clean, confess, own, own up, recognize, stand in a white sheet, unbosom, unburden), iddia etmek (affirm, allege, argue, argue for smth., assert, asseverate, attest, aver, claim, contend, declare oneself, enunciate, press home, protest, purport, put forth, put forward), icra etmek (ply), açıkça söylemek (articulate, avow, make no secret of, speak out), öğretmek (enlighten, indoctrinate, initiate, instruct, introduce, school, show, teach). (various references)

Ukrainian

удавати (affect, assume, counterfeit, let on, make believe), сповідувати, відверто визнавати, викладати (couch, pose, put, recite, set forward, teach, utter), займатися (carry on, deal in, do, employ, engage in, go in for, kindle, ply, prosecute, pursue), прикидатися (affect, counterfeit, dissimulate, feign, pretend, sham, simulate). (various references)

Welsh

proffesu, honni (allege, assert, assume, pretend). (various references)

profiteor. (various references)

fraoret. (various references)

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Derivations

Words beginning with "profess": professed, professedly, professes, professing, profession, professional, professionalism, professionalisms, professionalization, professionalizations, professionalize, professionalized, professionalizes, professionalizing, professionally, professionals, professions, professor, professorate, professorates, professorial, professorially, professoriat, professoriate, professoriates, professoriats, professors, professorship, professorships. (additional references)

Words containing "profess": interprofessional, nonprofessional, nonprofessionally, nonprofessionals, nonprofessorial, paraprofessional, paraprofessionals, preprofessional, semiprofessional, semiprofessionally, semiprofessionals, subprofessional, subprofessionals, ultraprofessional, unprofessed, unprofessional, unprofessionally, unprofessionals. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Profess" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: poofes, Prodesco, profers, Profetas, progess, proless, Promessi, proness, proofness, prosess, prozess. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: posers, proses, spores.

-2 letters: fores, fosse, froes, pesos, pores, poser, poses, posse, press, profs, prose, pross, repos, ropes, roses, serfs, sores, spore.

-3 letters: epos, eros, fess, foes, fops, fore, foss, froe, opes, ores, oses, peso, pore, pose, prof, pros, refs, repo, reps, roes, rope, rose, serf, sers, sops, sore.

-4 letters: efs, ers, ess, fer.

+1 letter: spoofers.

+2 letters: professed, professes, professor, supersoft.

+3 letters: forepassed, forespeaks, perfusions, prefocuses, professing, profession, professors, profitless, spooferies.

+4 letters: fiberscopes, fingerposts, gypsiferous, permafrosts, personifies, pestiferous, prefocussed, prefocusses, profaneness, professedly, professions, profuseness, pussyfooter, saponifiers, shoplifters, superfluous, unprofessed.

+5 letters: craftsperson, draftsperson, fluoroscopes, foremanships, greaseproofs, perfusionist, personifiers, prefocussing, professional, professorate, professorial, professoriat, profoundness, prolificness, pussyfooters, soporiferous, sportfulness, superprofits.