profess
/pɹəˈfɛs/ verbo C1En español: profesar
- To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order.
- To declare oneself (to be something). · They've professed themselves delighted with the results.
- To declare; to assert, affirm. · Having professed her belief in the remedy, she had little choice but to try it.
- To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity. · Many profess to despise what secretly they hunger after.
- To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).
- To work as a professor of; to teach.
He/she/it professes · Pasado professed · Participio pasado professed · Forma en -ing professing
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De la biblioteca
“I don’t profess to know the meaning of it,” said Cecil Barker; “but I have seen the mark on Douglas many times this last ten years.”
“I can’t profess to say what it means,” he answered.
Bingley was everything that was charming, except the professed lover of her daughter.
“Then you profess ignorance of the crime with which you are charged?”
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