Crossword-Solution: PROFESS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Profess | v. t. | To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely. |
| Profess | v. t. | To set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to put on or present an appearance of. |
| Profess | v. t. | To present to knowledge of, to proclaim one's self versed in; to make one's self a teacher or practitioner of, to set up as an authority respecting; to declare (one's self to be such); as, he professes surgery; to profess one's self a physician. |
| Profess | v. i. | To take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess. |
| Profess | v. i. | To declare friendship. |
We have 34 clues for the answer “PROFESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| state or claim (something as true), sometimes falsely | 1 answer |
| state insincerely | 1 answer |
| Make open declaration of | 1 answer |
| Declare, as your love | 1 answer |
| Declare a belief in religion | 1 answer |
| Say openly | 2 answers |
| Affirm openly. | 2 answers |
| Assert openly | 2 answers |
| Openly state | 2 answers |
| Claim openly | 2 answers |
| Pretend to know | 3 answers |
| DECLARE openly | 3 answers |
| declare publicly | 5 answers |
| Lay claim to | 5 answers |
| State confidently | 8 answers |
| AFFIRM OR AVOW FORMALLY OR SOLEMNLY | 10 answers |
| philosophise | 13 answers |
| Deserve | 14 answers |
| Promulgate | 21 answers |
| Hint at | 23 answers |
| predicate | 28 answers |
| avow | 36 answers |
| Act like | 37 answers |
| Pronounce | 37 answers |
| practise | 44 answers |
| confirm | 47 answers |
| Teach | 48 answers |
| Affirm | 48 answers |
| Pretend | 56 answers |
| Announce | 64 answers |
| Claim | 64 answers |
| Declare | 72 answers |
| Maintain | 73 answers |
| Advance | 107 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with PROFESS (5)
And some—frequently those who are definable as middle-aged youths, though not always—profess to have attained the same knowledge by other and converse experiences, and jauntily continue their indulgence in such experiences with terrible effect.
One is the relationship between human reasoning and AI; `neats' tend to try to build systems that `reason' in some way identifiably similar to the way humans report themselves as doing, while `scruffies' profess not to care whether an algorithm resembles human reasoning in the least as long as it works.
And, in fine, of false sciences I thought I knew the worth sufficiently to escape being deceived by the professions of an alchemist, the predictions of an astrologer, the impostures of a magician, or by the artifices and boasting of any of those who profess to know things of which they are ignorant.
Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works.
You profess to see, whereas you see nothing but a Point! You plume yourself on inferring the existence of a Straight Line; but I _can see_ Straight Lines, and infer the existence of Angles, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and even Circles.
Quotes with PROFESS (3)
I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.
Bet you can't even name one romantic movie you like," she teased. She felt smug when a few minutes went by and Oliver was still unable to name one romantic movie he could profess to enjoy. The Empire Strikes Back," Oliver finally declared, tapping his horn at a Prius that wandered over the line. The Empire Strikes Back? The Star Wars movie? That's not romantic!" Schuyler huffed, fiddling with the air conditioner controls. Au contraire, my dear, it's very romantic. The last sc…
If believers in God don't honor the cries and claims of the poor, we don't honor him, whatever we profess, because we hide his beauty from the eyes of the world. When we pour ourselves out for the poor — that gets the world's notice.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1974–2025).