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(transitive, chiefly passive) To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order. / (reflexive) To declare oneself (to be something).

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/pɹəˈfɛs/

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(transitive, chiefly passive) To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order. / (reflexive) To declare oneself (to be something).

She decided to profess her love for him.

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意味（1）

(transitive, chiefly passive) To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order.

This swayed the balance decisively in Mary's favour, and she was professed on 8 September 1578.

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意味（2）

(reflexive) To declare oneself (to be something).

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意味（3）

(transitive, intransitive) To declare; to assert, affirm.

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意味（4）

Ed Miliband professed ignorance of the comment when he was approached by the BBC later.

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意味（5）

(transitive) To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).

[N]ow ſuch a liue vngodly, vvithout a care of doing the wil of the Lord (though they profeſſe him in their mouths, yea though they beleeue and acknowledge all the Articles of the Creed, yea haue knowledge of the Scripturs) yet if they liue vngodly, they deny God, and therefore ſhal be denied, […]

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