Definizione monolingua

profess

profess (third-person singular simple present professes, present participle professing, simple past and past participle professed)

1. To make open declaration of, as of ones knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely.
2. To set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to put on or present an appearance of.
3. To present to knowledge of, to proclaim ones self versed in; to make ones self a teacher or practitioner of, to set up as an authority respecting; to declare (ones self to be such); as, he professes surgery; to profess ones self a physician.
4. To take a profession upon ones self by a public declaration; to confess.
5. (obsolete) To declare friendship.

Definizione dizionario profess

confessare

ammettere

dichiarare

insegnare

pretendere

professare

Altri significati:

To set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to put on or present an appearance of.

To take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess.

To present to knowledge of, to proclaim one's self versed in; to make one's self a teacher or practitioner of, to set up as an authority respecting; to declare (one's self to be such); as, he professes surgery; to profess one's self a physician.

(obsolete) To declare friendship.

To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely.