Both Uses
profess
in
The Taming of the Shrew
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- Sir, you say well, and well you do conceive; And since you do profess to be a suitor, You must, as we do, gratify this gentleman, To whom we all rest generally beholding.†
Scene 1.2 *profess = claim
- I read that I profess, the Art to Love.†
Scene 4.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(profess) to claim or declare -- often insincerely
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(2)
(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"