professed

/pɹəˈfɛst/ · verb

Meaning

To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order. (Chiefly in passive.)
To declare oneself (to be something).
To declare; to assert, affirm.
To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.
To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).
To work as a professor of; to teach.
Openly declared or acknowledged.
Professing to be qualified.

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