professed
pruh fest
- v practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about
- v confess one's faith in, or allegiance to
The terrorists professed allegiance to their country - v admit (to a wrongdoing)
- v state freely
The teacher professed that he was not generous when it came to giving good grades - v receive into a religious order or congregation
- v take vows, as in religious order
she professed herself as a nun - v state insincerely
He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt - s professing to be qualified
a professed philosopher - s claimed with intent to deceive
his professed intentions - s openly declared as such
her professed love of everything about that country
McKinley was assassinated by a professed anarchist
- Instead, the boy with highlighted hair and a self-professed disdain for coach-mandated curfews went knocking on the doors of sports schools himself.
- Just hours before he did it, Kemal was telling a journalist that popular Islam had become a morass of superstitions that would destroy those who professed it.
- In an appalling demonstration of the way in which a charismatic leader can bend the minds of his followers with a devilish blend of professed altruism and psychological .