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Professed
/pɹəˈfɛst/
To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order. (Chiefly in passive.)
📖 Definitions of "Professed"
verb
- 1
To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order. (Chiefly in passive.)
- 2
To declare oneself (to be something).
- 3
To declare; to assert, affirm.
- 4
To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.
adjective
- 1
Openly declared or acknowledged.
"His professed religion was Catholicism."
- 2
Professing to be qualified.
"She is a professed expert in mechanics."
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