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. Janos Arnay:

   It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

2. Christen Kuikoua:

   Crimes, racism, and rape, Just to name a Few Violence Against Christians, a war to reshape. And yet, in God we trust, they dare profess, What God is this, with such moral regress? Tell me, people, tell me, world so wide, What God is this, where sins abide? For the God I know rejects abomination,

3. Unknown:

   Present your religion to a little child, set him in the midst of those who profess it. If it frightens him, and freezes the smiles on his lips, then whatever sort of religion it is, it is not Christianity.

4. Mike Pompeo:

   We must once again openly profess our faith, our devotion to our families, and proclaim, unapologetically, the words, ‘ I am Mike Pompeo,'.

5. President Biden:

   They at least profess to agree with us that a functioning, secure, and operational airport is essential to the well-being of the Afghan people and the maintenance of the Afghan economy.