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profess (verb), professes; professed; professing
1. To declare openly, announce, affirm; to avow, acknowledge, confess oneself to be (or do) something.
2. To affirm or declare one’s faith in or allegiance to; to acknowledge or formally recognize as an object of faith or belief (a religion, principle, rule of action; God, Christ, a saint, etc.).
This entry is located in the following units: fa-, fam-, fan-, fant-, fat-, -fess; fab-, fabul- (page 5) pro-, por-, pur- (page 9)