Profess - Definition
profess
v 1: practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be
knowledgeable about; "She professes organic chemistry"
2: confess one's faith in, or allegiance to; "The terrorists
professed allegiance to their country"; "he professes to be a
Communist"
3: admit (to a wrongdoing); "She confessed that she had taken
the money" [syn: concede, profess, confess]
4: state freely; "The teacher professed that he was not generous
when it came to giving good grades"
5: receive into a religious order or congregation
6: take vows, as in religious order; "she professed herself as a
nun"
7: 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" [syn:
profess, pretend]