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
- 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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