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(1):

(v. i.) To declare friendship.

(2):

(v. t.) To present to knowledge of, to proclaim one's self versed in; to make one's self a teacher or practitioner of, to set up as an authority respecting; to declare (one's self to be such); as, he professes surgery; to profess one's self a physician.

(3):

(v. t.) To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely.

(4):

(v. t.) To set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to put on or present an appearance of.

(5):

(v. i.) To take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Profess'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/profess.html. 1828.
 
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