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How to pronounce “profess”
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Pronunciation guide for profess
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of profess with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Embracing Love: Hugging Men in Underwear
He is a professional actor turned ordained pastor,
- Definition summary
- (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order. [from 14th c.]
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce profess
Embracing Love: Hugging Men in Underwear
He is a professional actor turned ordained pastor,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “profess”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order. [from 14th c.]
- (reflexive) To declare oneself (to be something). [from 16th c.]
- (ambitransitive) To declare; to assert, affirm. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive) To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive) To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.). [from 16th c.]
- (transitive) To work as a professor of; to teach. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive, now rare) To claim to have knowledge or understanding of (a given area of interest, subject matter). [from 16th c.]
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