All 3 Uses of
profess
in
The Lords of Discipline
- Nor could I help but notice that Commerce, despite his objections to the city, had chosen to live out his life in the dead center of the tribe he professed to hate.†
Chpt 1.2 *professed = claimed
- The pull of Charleston was lunar and feminine and partisan and even affected those natives, like Commerce, who professed to loathe her extensive artifice and the carnivorous etiquette of its social structure.†
Chpt 1.2
- If you despise negativism as you just professed to do, what do you think inspired this reputation?†
Chpt 1.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(profess) to claim (openly state) -- sometimes 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"