2syllables
professed
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Definitions ofprofessed
1verb
- To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order. (Chiefly in passive.)
- To declare oneself (to be something).
- To declare; to assert, affirm.
- To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.
- To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).
- To work as a professor of; to teach.
- To claim to have knowledge or understanding of (a given area of interest, subject matter).
1adjective
- Openly declared or acknowledged.
Example: "His professed religion was Catholicism."
- Professing to be qualified.
Example: "She is a professed expert in mechanics."
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