profess

verbB1

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

professes

V_ing/Gerund

professing

V_ed/pp

professed

1.
(transitive)(transitive, chiefly passive voice) To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order.
2.
(reflexive)To declare oneself (to be something).
They've professed themselves delighted with the results.
3.
(ambitransitive)To declare; to assert, affirm.
Having professed her belief in the remedy, she had little choice but to try it.
4.
(transitive)To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.
Many profess to despise what secretly they hunger after.
5.
(transitive)To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).
6.
(transitive)To work as a professor of; to teach.
7.
(archaic, transitive)(transitive, now rare) To claim to have knowledge or understanding of (a given area of interest, subject matter).

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disprofessmisprofess professable unprofessing profession professor

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Old French professer, and its source, the participle stem of Latin profitērī, from pro- + fatērī (to confess, acknowledge).