profess
verb (used with object)
to lay claim to, often insincerely; pretend to.
is professing
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present progressiveof profess (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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For now, Hewitt is professing comfort at the thought that movies don't last at the multiplex forever.
From Time Magazine Archive
By his first morning in Havana, the ever combative polemist is professing his fury with Castro.
From Time Magazine Archive
When he reminds his fellowmen how far the worth of man transcends all other wealth, he is professing and commending a faith to which all his hopes stand pledged.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.
It cannot be strange to the soul which he is professing to study.
From Heretics by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
Even Comte, all the while that he is professing science, fact, precision, is adding detail after detail to the intensely personal Utopia of a Western Republic that constitutes his one meritorious gift to the world.
From An Englishman Looks at the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
