Synonym: allege, claim, contend, maintain. Antonym: suppress. Similar words: professor, profession, professional, semiprofessional, confess, confession, profits, profit. Meaning: [prə'fes] 
v. 1. practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about 2. confess one's faith in, or allegiance to 3. admit, make a clean breast of 4. state freely 5. receive into a religious order or congregation 6. take vows, as in religious order 7. state insincerely.
v. 1. practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about 2. confess one's faith in, or allegiance to 3. admit, make a clean breast of 4. state freely 5. receive into a religious order or congregation 6. take vows, as in religious order 7. state insincerely. 
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1 I profess that I was surprised at the news.
2 I don't profess to know all the details about the case.
3 I don't profess to be an expert in this subject.
4 I don't profess expert knowledge of/to be an expert in this subject.
5 Those learned intellectual historians all profess literature.
6 I don't profess to know anything about music.
7 Christians profess their faith when they say the Creed.
8 They have become what they profess to scorn.
9 He finally made up his mind to profess his love for her.
10 Why do Latins profess outrage against poison?
11 In Mexico,(www.Sentencedict.com) ninety percent of the people profess Catholicism.
12 What they did not profess to understand was how it could be terminated.
13 Mainstream economists profess much puzzlement over the failure of the rate of productivity growth to accelerate so far in this decade.
14 Interviews with people who profess to enjoy classical music turn up all sorts and conditions of appreciation.
15 They are also more prone to profess unhappiness than divorced women.
16 People often hypocritically profess their beliefs for personal interests(sentencedict.com), and many always do things that are inconsistent with their beliefs. Dr T.P.Chia 
17 Although many companies profess to want to reward performance instead of face time, many report difficulties doing so.
18 For months, Derek had wanted to profess his love for Beth.
19 Can vitriolic gentamicin use profess to convinced?
20 Christians profess Christ and the Christian religion.
21 If they can come to a binding agreement, the prisoners will both profess their innocence and be sentenced to two years.
22 I know there are many women who endure similar treatment from men who profess to love them.
23 Solicitors in the north and west will no longer brief London barristers except in matters in which such barristers profess particular expertise.
24 Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do. Nathaniel Branden
25 Often she will be able to sleep with rising superstars and juvenile celebrities who will profess love but never contemplate marrying her.
26 Some of the publishers cashing in on the lucrative confession craze profess to being disturbed by it.
27 Many people find it socially and morally advantageous to hypocritically profess their religious beliefs, and to use religion to justify what they want to believe and do. Dr T.P.Chia
28 In two days' time, the calendar dictates that we must profess love to those we hold dear.
29 No matter that the campaign is over, and that they also profess to be determined to balance the budget.
30 So were the great Victorian railway stations that we now profess to admire, almost uncritically.
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