All 10 Uses of
profess
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Then you profess ignorance of the crime with which you are charged?†
Chpt 17-18 *
- Such was Albert's opinion of the count, and as Franz well knew that Albert professed never to form an opinion except upon long reflection, he made no attempt to change it.†
Chpt 35-36
- I do not dare offer to share my apartments with you, as I shared yours at Rome—I, who do not profess egotism, but am yet egotist par excellence; for, except myself, these rooms would not hold a shadow more, unless that shadow were feminine.†
Chpt 39-40
- His wife visited for him, and this was the received thing in the world, where the weighty and multifarious occupations of the magistrate were accepted as an excuse for what was really only calculated pride, a manifestation of professed superiority—in fact, the application of the axiom, "Pretend to think well of yourself, and the world will think well of you," an axiom a hundred times more useful in society nowadays than that of the Greeks, "Know thyself," a knowledge for which, in our…†
Chpt 47-48
- She was a perfect linguist, a first-rate artist, wrote poetry, and composed music; to the study of the latter she professed to be entirely devoted, following it with an indefatigable perseverance, assisted by a schoolfellow,—a young woman without fortune whose talent promised to develop into remarkable powers as a singer.†
Chpt 53-54
- How could I make such a proposition, especially to a woman who always professes to be so entirely disinterested?†
Chpt 57-58
- Nevertheless, my dear count, I found you this morning engaged in an occupation but little consistent with the notions you profess to entertain.†
Chpt 77-78
- Although professing diametrically opposite principles from those of the editor of the other paper, Beauchamp—as it sometimes, we may say often, happens—was his intimate friend.†
Chpt 85-86
- Now, I repeat, Beauchamp, I wish to return to human and material existence, and if you are still the friend you profess to be, help me to discover the hand that struck the blow.†
Chpt 87-88
- She has fostered my independence by professedly indulging my love for liberty.†
Chpt 95-96
Definition:
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(profess) to claim (openly state) -- sometimes insincerely