professed

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English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pɹəˈfɛst/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛst
  • Hyphenation: pro‧fessed

Adjective

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professed (comparative more professed, superlative most professed)

  1. Openly declared or acknowledged.
    His professed religion was Catholicism.
  2. Professing to be qualified.
    She is a professed expert in mechanics.
    • 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 8, page 128:
      [] flowers, which, if not identical with our violets, sufficiently correspond to them for the purposes of readers who are not professed botanists.
  3. Admitted to a religious order.
    • 1887, chapter XI, in Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, transl., Les Misérables[1], volume II, Little, Brown, and Company, translation of original by Victor Hugo:
      The rule of the Perpetual Adoration is so strict that it horrifies; novices hold back, and the order is not recruited. In 1845 a few lay sisters were still found here and there, but no professed nuns.

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Verb

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professed

  1. simple past and past participle of profess