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On the galley's prow sat the unhappy sister Clare, young and beautiful, lovely and guileless, as yet a nun unprofessed.

From The Prose Marmion A Tale of the Scottish Border by Jenkins, Sara D.

If you are at heart a Roman Catholic—if all these years you have been an unprofessed member of that Church—it may be as well for you to acknowledge it openly.

From Lover or Friend by Carey, Rosa Nouchette

Nought say I here of Sister Clare, Save this, that she was young and fair; As yet a novice unprofessed, Lovely and gentle, but distressed.

From Marmion by Morley, Henry

"Meddle not with criticism, as a professed or unprofessed critic, unless you are prepared to invade the depths of criticism."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various