Both Uses of
profess
in
Much Ado About Nothing
- Do you question me, as an honest man should do, for my simple true judgment; or would you have me speak after my custom, as being a professed tyrant to their sex?†
Scene 1.1 *professed = claimed
- how long have you professed apprehension?†
Scene 3.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(profess) to claim or declare -- often 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"