Synonyms for professed

Grammar : Adj

Spell : pruh-fest

Phonetic Transcription : prəˈfɛst

Définition of professed

Origin : "openly declared," 1560s, past participle adjective from profess. Earlier in a more specific sense of "having taken vows of a religious order" (late 14c.). Related: Professedly.

adj avowed

Example sentences :

Though he professed to like Philip, yet he saw but little of him.
Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

It was as if a professed unbeliever in ghosts should be frightened by a ghost story.
Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens

He was baptised in the Ouse, and became a professed member of the Baptist congregation.
Extract from : « Bunyan » by James Anthony Froude

Henry professed to be pleased that she had accepted his ideas so completely.
Extract from : « Changing Winds » by St. John G. Ervine

"And you professed to be telling me everything interesting," he reproached her.
Extract from : « Cleo The Magnificent » by Louis Zangwill

Felicite professed to feel a presentiment that she would die rich.
Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola

Secondly, there are the professed accusers, who are but the mouth-piece of the others.
Extract from : « Apology » by Plato

Robbie professed to know better, and to be able to laugh at such pretensions.
Extract from : « The Shadow of a Crime » by Hall Caine

There had been times when he referred to it as "the old jail," and professed to hate it.
Extract from : « The Portygee » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

He was conscience-stricken and fully as miserable as she professed to be.
Extract from : « The Portygee » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

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