Both Uses of
profess
in
The Fountainhead
- You give them what they profess to like in public.†
Chpt 3.1 *profess = claim
- The frustrated wretch who professes love for the inferior and clings to those less endowed, in order to establish his own superiority by comparison.†
Chpt 4.11professes = claims
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"