Both Uses of
profess
in
The Screwtape Letters
- If you try to make him explicitly and professedly proud of being a Christian, you will probably fail; the Enemy's warnings are too well known.†
Chpt 24 *
- The Enemy will also try to render real in the patient's mind a doctrine which they all profess but find it difficult to bring home to their feelings—the doctrine that they did not create themselves, that their talents were given them, and that they might as well be proud of the colour of their hair.†
Chpt 14
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"