She writes of being “ashamed” of disavowing feminism, professing ignorance of its meaning and mission.
Marco Rubio did his best Barack Obama impression Thursday, professing his profound belief in the American Dream.
But this handsome, media-friendly president is constantly discoursing and professing.
I am afraid of what you people can create,” professing concern “that some nut is going to be stirred up.
If a man 'will' make a book, professing to discuss a single question, an encyclopaedia, I cannot help it.
Critias returns to his story, professing only to repeat what Solon was told by the priests.
He departed, professing over and over again his deathless gratitude.
So Jim wrote, professing to find material gain in the affair.
Lefever, professing he would not drink alone, called for cigarettes.
She writes that it is really not a book so far for professing Christians.
early 14c., "to take a vow" (in a religious order), a back-formation from profession or else from Old French profes, from Medieval Latin professus "avowed," literally "having declared publicly," past participle of Latin profiteri "declare openly, testify voluntarily, acknowledge, make public statement of," from pro- "forth" (see pro-) + fateri (past participle fassus) "acknowledge, confess," akin to fari "speak" (see fame (n.)). Meaning "declare openly" first recorded 1520s, "a direct borrowing of the sense from Latin" [Barnhart]. Related: Professed; professing.
