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Definition: Professed |
ProfessedAdjective1. Professing to be qualified; "a professed philosopher". 2. Claimed with intent to deceive; "his professed intentions". 3. Openly declared as such; "an avowed enemy"; "her professed love of everything about that country"; "McKinley was assassinated by a professed anarchist". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "professed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: ProfessedSynonyms: avowed(a) (adj), professed(a) (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Professed |
| English words defined with "professed": antithetic, antithetical, avowed ♦ Cicisbeo ♦ Knights of labor ♦ profess, Provessel ♦ Visible church. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "professed": Abrahamites, Adamites ♦ Dee ♦ Franciscans ♦ Jansenists ♦ Karmathians ♦ Mantaccini ♦ Nihilists ♦ Orkborne ♦ Scriptores Tres, Sophist, Sophistry, Sophism, Sophisticator, Stephens ♦ Varina ♦ WHORE'S CURSE. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "professed": Profess. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It is therefore impossible to stop at these professed solutions. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | He professed both to abominate and despise all mystery, refinement, and intrigue, either in a prince or a minister. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Colombia | On July 2, 1996, the Andean Community members adopted a common regime for access to genetic and biological resources, with the professed goal of promoting the conservation, development, and sustainable use of biological and genetic diversity. (references) |
Indigenous People | Mexico | The Government generally professed respect for their desire to retain elements of their traditional culture in practice. (references) |
Political Economy | Togo | Despite the Government's professed intention to move from authoritarian rule to democracy, institutions established ostensibly to accomplish this transition did not do so in practice. (references) |
Worker Rights | Niger | The USTN and affiliated National Union of Nigerien Teachers (SNEN) professed political autonomy, but they have informal ties to political parties. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | We always professed unselfish purpose and we covet the opportunity to prove our professions are sincere. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Professed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 54.97% of the time. "Professed" is used about 171 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 54.97% | 94 | 33,845 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 35.67% | 61 | 43,149 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 8.77% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.58% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 171 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "professed": The professed. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "professed": self-professed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "professed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | që ka bërë kushtet, i vetëquajtur (impostor, self-styled), i shpallur (announced, declared, stated), i deklaruar (declared). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مقبول في رهبانية, مزعوم (alleged, allegedly, claimed, pretended, so called, supposed), ناذر, راهب ناذر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | явен (apparent, blazing, decided, declared, distinct, downright, evident, Frank, glaring, manifest, marked, noticeable, obvious, open, ostensible, outright, overt, palpable, patent, plain, Plumb, pointed, pronounced, rank, self-explanatory, sheer, thumping, transparent, unconcealed, unmistakable, visible), самозван (self-appointed, self-styled), отявлен (arrant, desperate, downright, notorious, open, rank, right-down, straight out, unmitigated), мним (make believe, mock, ostensible, quasi-, seeming, supposed), покалугерил се, подстригал се, по занаят, по професия, известен (certain, distinguished, famous, known, noted, of repute, renowned, reputed, well known). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 公开宣称 (Profess, Professing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | samozvaný (self-styled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | profès, déclaré. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | erklärte (declared, expounded, melded). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szerzetesi fogadalmat tett, meggyőződéses, hivatásos (common, pro, professional), bevallott (declared). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | professo, dichiarato (avowed, declared, self-confessed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | glackit 'syn oardagh, breearrit (maintained, promised under oath, vowed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ofessedpray profissional (occupational, practitioner, professional, professor, vocational), professo, pretenso (ostensible, pretended, reputed, self-styled, so-called, supposed, would-be), falso (apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, buckram, cammed, canting, counterfeit, deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, dummy, erroneous, faked, false, flash, hollow-hearted, imitation, insincere, lying, mendacious, mock, off-key, ostensible, painted, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, self-styled, shifty, shoddy, simulated, sklent, slippery, slippy, snaky, snide, so-called, spurious, supposititious, traitorous, treacherous, truthless, two-faced, two-tongued, unfair, untrue, untrustworthy, wrong), declarado (avowed, declared). (various references) declarat (avowed, declare, declared). (various references) открытый (above board, exposed, fair and square, free for all, open, open-air, open-door, open-ended, overt, patent, public, shadeless, unclosed, undisguised, unprotected). (various references) po zanimanju, zaklet (sworn), vajni (pretended, sham, would be). (various references) profeso, llamado (called, calling, engaged, so called, so-called), fingido (assumed, bogus, dissembled, feigned, make believe, mimic, mock, pretended, sham, simulated, unction), declarado (avowed, declared, outright). (various references) föregiven (feign, fictitious, ostensible, ostentatious, pretended, self-styled), erkänd (acknowledged, approved, recognized). (various references) sözde (alleged, allegedly, as if, as though, nominal, nominally, of a sort, of sorts, ostensible, professedly, quasi, quasi-, reputed, self-styled, so called, soi-disant, supposed, would be), itiraf edilmiş, iddia edilen (alleged), açıkça söylenmiş, açık olan. (various references) удаваний (affected, artificial, assumed, counterfeit, feigned, hypocrite, make believe, mock, obvious, ostensible, ostensive, pretended, put on, seeming, shoddy, simulate, studied, supposed, well-affected, would be), відвертий (above board, candid, direct, expansive, forthright, free-hearted, nude, open, outgiving, outright, outspoken, plain, plainspoken, self-confessed, unreserved, upstanding), професіональний (professional), пострижений. (various references) không che giấu tự xưng, công khai (avowedly, barely, declared, overt, professedly, public, publicly, purportedly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | 1 Timothy Chapter 6, Verse 12 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Agwnizou ton kalon agwna thV pistewV epilabou thV aiwniou zwhV eiV hn kai eklhqhV kai wmologhsaV thn kalhn omologian enwpion pollwn marturwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Certa bonum certamen fidei adprehende vitam aeternam in qua vocatus es et confessus bonam confessionem coram multis testibus |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Stryue thou a good strijf of feith, catche euerlastinge lijf, in to which thou art clepid, and hast knoulechid a good knouleching bifor many witnessis. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Fyght ye good fyght of fayth. Laye honde on eternall lyfe where vnto thou arte called and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Be fighting the good fight of the faith; take for yourself the life eternal, for which you were marked out, and of which you gave witness in the eyes of all. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 1 Timothy Chapter 6, Verse 12 |
| Cebuano | Pakigbugno diha sa maayong bugno labut sa pagtoo; padayoni ang pagkupot sa dayong kinabuhi nga ngadto niini gitawag ikaw ug nga imong gihimoan sa maayong pagsugid sa atubangan sa daghang mga saksi. |
| Croatian | Bij dobar boj vjere, osvoji vjeèni život na koji si pozvan i radi kojega si dao ono lijepo svjedoèanstvo pred mnogim svjedocima! |
| Danish | strid Troens gode Strid, grib det evige Liv, til hvilket du er bleven kaldet og har aflagt den gode Bekendelse for mange Vidner. |
| Dutch | Strijd den goeden strijd des geloofs, grijp naar het eeuwige leven, tot hetwelk gij ook geroepen zijt, en de goede belijdenis beleden hebt voor vele getuigen. |
| Finnish | Kilvoittele hyvä uskon kilvoitus, tartu kiinni iankaikkiseen elämään, johon olet kutsuttu ja johon hyvällä tunnustuksella olet tunnustautunut monen todistajan edessä. |
| French | Combats le bon combat de la foi, saisis la vie éternelle, laquelle tu as été appelé, et pour laquelle tu as fait une belle confession en présence d`un grand nombre de témoins. |
| German | kämpfe den guten Kampf des Glaubens; ergreife das ewige Leben, dazu du auch berufen bist und bekannt hast ein gutes Bekenntnis vor vielen Zeugen. |
| Haitian Creole | Mennen batay pou lafwa a byen. Kenbe lavi ki p'ap janm fini an fèm. Paske, se Bondye menm ki te rele ou pou ou te konnen lavi sa a, lè ou te byen pale devan yon bann temwen, pou fè konnen jan ou gen lafwa. |
| Hungarian | Harczold meg a hitnek szép harczát, nyerd el az örök életet, a melyre hívattattál, és szép vallástétellel vallást tettél sok bizonyság elõtt. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Berjuanglah sungguh-sungguh untuk hidup sebagai orang Kristen supaya engkau merebut hadiah hidup sejati dan kekal. Sebab untuk itulah Allah memanggil engkau pada waktu engkau mengakui di hadapan banyak orang bahwa engkau percaya kepada Kristus. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Berusahalah dengan bersungguh-sungguh di dalam peperangan iman, mencapai hidup yang kekal, yang engkau telah dipanggil itu, sedang sudah engkau ikrarkan ikrar yang baik di hadapan banyak saksi. |
| Italian | Combatti la buona battaglia della fede, cerca di raggiungere la vita eterna alla quale sei stato chiamato e per la quale hai fatto la tua bella professione di fede davanti a molti testimoni. |
| Maori | Whawhaitia te whawhai pai o te whakapono, hopukia atu te ora tonu, ko te mea hoki tena i karangatia ai koe, a whakaaetia ana e koe te whakaaetanga pai i te aroaro o nga kaititiro tokomaha. |
| Norwegian | Strid troens gode strid, grip det evige liv, som du blev kalt til, du som og har avlagt den gode bekjennelse for mange vidner! |
| Portuguese | Peleja a boa peleja da fé, apodera-te da vida eterna, para a qual foste chamado, tendo já feito boa confissão diante de muitas testemunhas. |
| Rumanian | Luptq-te lupta cea bunq a credinyei; apucq viaya vecinicq la care ai fost chemat, wi pentru care ai fqcut aceea frumoasq mqrturisire knaintea multor marturi. |
| Russian | рП"ЧЙЪБКУС "П'ТЩН П"ЧЙЗПН ЧЕТЩ, "ЕТЦЙУШ ЧЕЮОПК ЦЙЪОЙ, Л ЛПФПТПК ФЩ Й ТЙЪЧБО, Й ЙУ ПЧЕ"БМ "П'ТПЕ ЙУ ПЧЕ"БОЙЕ ЕТЕ" НОПЗЙНЙ УЧЙ"ЕФЕМСНЙ. |
| Shuar | Yusna nu Túrunat tusam kakaram Ajástá. Tuke amuicha iwiaakma emetata. Nu Túratniun Yus anaitiamkaiti, tura ame Yus nekas Enentáimtamu Untsurí shuar iruntramunam etserkaitme. |
| Swahili | Piga mbio kadiri uwezavyo katika shindano la mbio za imani, ukajipatie tuzo la uzima wa milele, uliloitiwa wakati ulipokiri imani yako mbele ya mashahidi wengi. |
| Swedish | Kämpa trons goda kamp, sök att vinna det eviga livet, vartill du har blivit kallad, du som ock inför många vittnen har avlagt den goda bekännelsen. |
| Uma | Neo' nubahakai mpotuku' ohea pepangala' -ta, perohoi ngkakamu katuwua' to lompe' duu' kahae-hae-na. Apa' toe-mi patuju-na Alata'ala mpokio' -ko jadi' bagia-na, bona mporata-ko katuwua' to lompe' toe. Nakio' -ko jadi' bagia-na, pai' hi nyanyoa wori' tauna mpolia' nu'uli' -mi kanupangala' -na Pue' Yesus. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "professed": professedly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "professed": unprofessed. (additional references) | |
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"Professed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: professer, professof, professot, professwd. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "professed" (pronounced prufe"st) |
| 4 | -f e" s t | confessed, fessed, infest. |
| 3 | -e" s t | abreast, acquiesced, addressed, arrest, assessed, attest, behest, bequest, best, blessed, blest, breast, Celeste, chest, coalesced, compressed, congest, crest, depressed, detest, digest, digressed, dispossessed, distressed, divest, dressed, expressed, finessed, gest, guessed, guest, impressed, ingest, invest, jest, lest, messed, molest, nest, northwest, obsessed, oppressed, pest, possessed, pressed, Prest, progressed, quest, rearrest, reassessed, recessed, reinvest, repossessed, repressed, request, rest, retest, southwest, stressed, suggest, suppressed, test, transgressed, unaddressed, undressed, unimpressed, unrest, vest, West, wrest, zest. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-f-o-p-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: deposers. | |
-2 letters: deposer, deposes, depress, pressed, profess, reposed, reposes, speedos. | |
-3 letters: defers, depose, dopers, dosers, dosser, epodes, eposes, erodes, eroses, fessed, pedros, perses, posers, prosed, proses, redoes, repose, resods, seders, speedo, speeds, speers, spodes, spored, spores, sprees. | |
-4 letters: deeps, deers, defer, doers, doper, dopes, dorps, doser, doses, drees, dress, drops, dross, epode, erode, erose. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-f-o-p-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: forepassed. | |
+2 letters: prefocussed, professedly, unprofessed. | |
+4 letters: splendiferous. | |
+5 letters: perfidiousness, profoundnesses. | |
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