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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   profess

   • IPA[prəˈfes]

   美式

   • v.
     claim that one has (a quality or feeling), especially when this is not the case；have or claim knowledge or skill in (a subject or accomplishment)

   • verb: profess, 3rd person present: professes, gerund or present participle: professing, past tense: professed, past participle: professed

2. • 釋義

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. claim that one has (a quality or feeling), especially when this is not the case he had professed his love for her I don't profess to be an expert 同義詞 declare, announce, proclaim, assert, state, ... 更多affirm, avow, maintain, protest, aver, vow, rareasseverate, claim, pretend, purport, allege, make a pretense of, lay claim, make out that, informallet on that
   • ▪ archaic have or claim knowledge or skill in (a subject or accomplishment) though knowing little of the arts I professed, he proved a natural adept
   • 2. affirm one's faith in or allegiance to (a religion or set of beliefs) a people professing Christianity 同義詞 state/affirm one's faith in, affirm one's allegiance to, make a public declaration of, declare publicly, avow, ... 更多confess, acknowledge publicly
   • ▪ be received into a religious order under vows she entered St. Margaret's Convent, and was professed in 1943
   • 3. archaic, humorous teach (a subject) as a professor a professor—what does he profess?