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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
profess/prəˈfes/
▶verb
- 1 claim that one has (a quality or feeling).
- 2 affirm one's faith in or allegiance to (a religion).
■ (be professed) be received into a religious order under vows.
- 3 archaic or humorous teach (a subject) as a professor.
- 4 archaic have or claim knowledge or skill in.
– origin ME: from L. profess-, profiteri ‘declare publicly’, from pro- ‘before’ + fateri ‘confess’.
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