Antonyms for profess

Grammar : Verb

Spell : pruh-fes

Phonetic Transcription : prəˈfɛs

Definition of profess

Origin : early 14c., "to take a vow" (in a religious order), a back-formation from profession or else from Old French profes, from Medieval Latin professus "avowed," literally "having declared publicly," past participle of Latin profiteri "declare openly, testify voluntarily, acknowledge, make public statement of," from pro- "forth" (see pro-) + fateri (past participle fassus) "acknowledge, confess," akin to fari "speak" (see fame (n.)). Meaning "declare openly" first recorded 1520s, "a direct borrowing of the sense from Latin" [Barnhart]. Related: Professed; professing.

verb declare, assert

Example sentences :

I cannot profess sorrow for that, nor irresolution in that, nor shame in that.
Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens

In vain, dear Caroline, you urge me to think; I profess only to feel.
Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth

I conjure you by that which you profess, (how'er you come to know it,) answer me to what I ask you.
Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 11, June 11, 1870 » by Various

They wanted so much attending to, and she did not profess to open her house to them.
Extract from : « The First Violin » by Jessie Fothergill

Not that I profess to know anything either about Hegel or Schopenhauer.
Extract from : « Cleo The Magnificent » by Louis Zangwill

There are not many things which I profess to know, but this is most certainly one of them.
Extract from : « Meno » by Plato

Then, although they profess such friendship, they don't altogether like us.
Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

All profess to know it, but all do not know what is meant by charity.
Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 » by Various

They all profess the Greek faith, and are in their way very religious.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 » by Various

And yet you profess to love your niece as affectionately as your daughters.
Extract from : « An Old Sailor's Yarns » by Nathaniel Ames

Synonyms for profess

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