Synonyms for profess
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : pruh-fes |
| Phonetic Transcription : prəˈfɛs |
Top 10 synonyms for profess Other synonyms for the word profess
- act as if
- announce
- asseverate
- aver
- avouch
- blow hot air
- certify
- claim
- come out
- confirm
- constate
- croon
- cross heart
- depose
- dissemble
- fake
- get off chest
- get on soapbox
- maintain
- make out
- open up
- own
- own up
- predicate
- purport
- say so
- sing
- soapbox
- spiel
- spout
- state
- swear on bible
- swear up and down
- talk big
- vouch
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for profess
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