Synonyms for profess
prəˈfɛspro·fess

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1. profess

   Acknowledge, admit, and declare refer either to oneself or to others; all the other words refer only to one's own knowledge or action. To avow is to declare boldly and openly, commonly as something one is ready to justify, maintain, or defend. A man acknowledges another's claim or his own promise; he admits an opponent's advantage or his own error; he declares either what he has seen or experienced or what he has received from another; he avers what he is sure of from his own knowledge or consciousness; he gives his assurance as the voucher for what he avouches; he avows openly a belief or intention that he has silently held. Avow and avouch take a direct object; aver is followed by a conjunction: a man avows his faith, avouches a deed, avers that he was present. Avow has usually a good sense; what a person avows he at least does not treat as blameworthy, criminal, or shameful; if he did, he would be said to confess it; yet there is always the suggestion that some will be ready to challenge or censure what one avows; as, the clergyman avowed his dissent from the doctrine of his church. Own applies to all things, good or bad, great or small, which one takes as his own. Compare CONFESS; STATE.

   Synonyms:
   admit, aver, avouch, avow, confess, declare, knowledge, own, proclaim, protest, testify, witness

   Antonyms:
   contradict, deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, ignore, repudiate

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1. profess

   Synonyms:
   declare, avow, acknowledge, own, confess, pretend, proclaim, lay claim to

   Antonyms:
   conceal, suppress, disown, disavow, repudiate, renounce, abjure

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1. professverb

   practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about

   "She professes organic chemistry"

   Synonyms:
   confess, concede, pretend

2. professverb

   confess one's faith in, or allegiance to

   "The terrorists professed allegiance to their country"; "he professes to be a Communist"

   Synonyms:
   confess, concede, pretend

3. concede, profess, confessverb

   admit (to a wrongdoing)

   "She confessed that she had taken the money"

   Synonyms:
   yield, cede, confess, pretend, grant, concede, fink, squeal

4. professverb

   state freely

   "The teacher professed that he was not generous when it came to giving good grades"

   Synonyms:
   confess, concede, pretend

5. professverb

   receive into a religious order or congregation

   Synonyms:
   confess, concede, pretend

6. professverb

   take vows, as in religious order

   "she professed herself as a nun"

   Synonyms:
   confess, concede, pretend

7. profess, pretendverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   act, make, feign, confess, affect, pretend, dissemble, hazard, concede, make believe, sham, venture, guess

Matched Categories

1. • Accept
   • Claim
   • Declare
   • Vow

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1. professverb

   Synonyms:
   avow, acknowledge, own, confess, declare, affirm, avouch, aver, allege

2. professverb

   Synonyms:
   pretend, lay claim to

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1. professverb

   Synonyms:
   acknowledge, avow, admit, claim, pretend

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1. List of paraphrases for "profess":

   manifest, practise

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1. Morgan Potter:

   Our pitch to clients is that it is not about being all things to all people, we profess to be experts with international and Asian ETFs.

2. Frederick Douglass:

   Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.

3. David Bowie:

   I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

4. Frederick Douglass 1817-1895:

   If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground.

5. Matthew Henry:

   Women who profess the Christian religion, must be modest in apparel.”