profess
verb (used with object)
to lay claim to, often insincerely; pretend to.
unprofessing
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a word derived from
profess.
Example Sentences
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She had expected no more than the company of Minna—an unprofessing but real Christian, if ever there were one, and the equally Christian if equally hedonist Mme.
From Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement by Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir
Upon the whole, I began to think that I had not made a bad exchange of our professing mother, for the unprofessing Mrs. Moore.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5 by Richardson, Samuel
