Both Uses of
profess
in
Animal Farm
- Boxer professed not to be sorry for what had happened.†
p. 121..2 *
- Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse — hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.†
p. 130..8
Definition:
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(profess) to claim (openly state) -- sometimes insincerely