All 3 Uses of
profess
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- I ought to profess Greek, the language of the mind.†
Chpt 7 *profess = claim
- Mr Bloom ejaculated, professing not the least surprise at the intelligence, I can quite credit the assertion and I guarantee he invariably does.†
Chpt 16professing = claiming
- Both indurated by early domestic training and an inherited tenacity of heterodox resistance professed their disbelief in many orthodox religious, national, social and ethical doctrines.†
Chpt 17professed = claimed
Definitions:
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(1)
(profess) to claim (openly state) -- sometimes insincerely
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, profess can mean:- to teach or be knowledgeable of -- as in "profess chemistry"
- practice as a profession -- as in "profess medicine"
- proclaim belief in or allegiance to -- as in "profess Catholicism"