professing
pruh fe sing
- n an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion
- v practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about
- v confess one's faith in, or allegiance to
- v admit (to a wrongdoing)
- v state freely
- v receive into a religious order or congregation
- v take vows, as in religious order
- v state insincerely
- But what happens when people of different origins, speaking different languages and professing different religions, inhabit the same locality and live under the same political .
- How can we have reached a moment in history when men professing to be soldiers serving a cause are capable not only of committing such atrocities but of calling them acts of war?.
- The one-time Emperor nurtured the earth lovingly, professing himself content with watering his patch of the motherland.