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Profess synonyms
prə-fĕs', prō-
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avow
To acknowledge or declare openly and unashamedly:
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  1. To acknowledge or declare openly and unashamedly:
  2. To acknowledge or claim (oneself) to be
  3. To declare openly or admit frankly
confess
To hear confessions
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  1. To hear confessions
  2. To admit a fault or crime; acknowledge one's guilt
  3. To admit or acknowledge something damaging or inconvenient to oneself:
pretend
To give a false appearance of; feign:
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  1. To give a false appearance of; feign:
  2. To claim or allege insincerely or falsely:
  3. To take upon oneself; venture:
feign
To represent falsely; pretend to:
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  1. To represent falsely; pretend to:
  2. (Archaic) To invent or imagine.
  3. To pretend; dissemble
pretend
To feign an action or character, as in play.
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  1. To feign an action or character, as in play.
  2. To claim or allege insincerely or falsely:
  3. To take upon oneself; venture:
Find another word for profess. In this page you can discover 7 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for profess, like: avow, confess, pretend, declare, feign, pretend and true.

Sentence Examples

  • I don't profess to be a believer, but I'd like to think I have an open mind.

  • But be this as it may, he had no sooner adopted his new creed than he resolved to profess it; " a momentary glow of enthusiasm " had raised him above all temporal considerations, and accordingly, on June 8, 1753, he records that having " privately abjured the heresies" of his childhood before a Catholic priest of the name of Baker, a Jesuit, in London, he announced the same to his father in an elaborate controversial epistle which his spiritual adviser much approved, and which he himself afterwards described to Lord Sheffield as having been " written with all the pomp, the dignity, and self-satisfaction of a martyr."

  • Modern equity, it need hardly be said, does not profess to soften the rigour of the law, or to correct the errors into which it falls by reason of its generality.

  • If he profess, however, to create a tenancy for a period longer than that to which his own interest extends, he does not thereby give to his tenant an interest available against the reversioner or remainder man.

  • "I find it fascinating that you and Wynn profess to care yet aren't willing to deal," Darkyn mused.

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