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Meaning of profess

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  profess
      v 1: practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be
           knowledgeable about; "She professes organic chemistry"
      2: confess one's faith in, or allegiance to; "The terrorists
         professed allegiance to their country"; "he professes to be a
         Communist"
      3: admit (to a wrongdoing); "She confessed that she had taken
         the money" [syn: {concede}, {profess}, {confess}]
      4: state freely; "The teacher professed that he was not generous
         when it came to giving good grades"
      5: receive into a religious order or congregation
      6: take vows, as in religious order; "she professed herself as a
         nun"
      7: state insincerely; "He professed innocence but later admitted
         his guilt"; "She pretended not to have known the suicide
         bomber"; "She pretends to be an expert on wine" [syn:
         {profess}, {pretend}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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