All 8 Uses of
profess
in
Mansfield Park
- If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.†
Chpt 4 *
- Mr. Rushworth was eager to assure her ladyship of his acquiescence, and tried to make out something complimentary; but, between his submission to her taste, and his having always intended the same himself, with the superadded objects of professing attention to the comfort of ladies in general, and of insinuating that there was one only whom he was anxious to please, he grew puzzled, and Edmund was glad to put an end to his speech by a proposal of wine.†
Chpt 6
- To do him justice, however, he did not resolve to appropriate it; for remembering that there was some very good ranting-ground in Frederick, he professed an equal willingness for that.†
Chpt 14
- Dr. Grant, professing an indisposition, for which he had little credit with his fair sister-in-law, could not spare his wife.†
Chpt 18
- I know her disposition to be as sweet and faultless as your own, but the influence of her former companions makes her seem—gives to her conversation, to her professed opinions, sometimes a tinge of wrong.†
Chpt 27
- It was with reluctance that he suffered her to go; but there was no look of despair in parting to belie his words, or give her hopes of his being less unreasonable than he professed himself.†
Chpt 33
- But are you so insensible as you profess yourself?†
Chpt 36
- A woman married only six months ago; a man professing himself devoted, even engaged to another; that other her near relation; the whole family, both families connected as they were by tie upon tie; all friends, all intimate together!†
Chpt 46
Definition:
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(profess) to claim (openly state) -- sometimes insincerely