Both Uses
profess
in
The Notebook
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- "You did, though, in the end, despite your professed innocence," she said, smiling.†
professed = claimed
- A lifetime of letters, letters professing my love, letters from my heart.
*professing = openly stating
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"