To declare friendship. [Not in use.]
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. To make open declaration of; to avow or acknowledge.
2. Let no man who professes himself a christian, keep so heathenish a family as not to see God by daily worshipped in it.
3. They profess that they know God, but in works they deny him. Titus 1:16 .
4. To declare in strong terms.
5. Then will I profess to them, I never knew you. Matthew 7:23 .
6. To make a show of any sentiments by loud declaration.
7. To your professing bosoms I commit him.
8. To declare publicly one's skill in any art or science, for inviting employment; as, to profess one's self a physician; he professes surgery.
1. To take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess.
2. To declare friendship.
1. To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely.
2. To set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to put on or present an appearance of.
3. To present to knowledge of, to proclaim one's self versed in; to make one's self a teacher or practitioner of, to set up as an authority respecting; to declare (one's self to be such); as, he professes surgery; to profess one's self a physician.
1. By profession; by open declaration or avowal.
2. I could not grant too much to men--professedly my subjects.
3. England I traveled over, professedly searching all places as I passed along.
By profession.
Openly declaring; avowing; acknowledging.
of Profess
1. Open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment of one's sentiments or belief; as professions of friendship or sincerity; a profession of faith or religion.
2. The professions of princes, when a crown is the bait, are a slender security.
3. The Indians quickly perceive the coincidence or the contradiction between professions and conduct, and their confidence or distrust follows of course.
4. The business which one professes to understand and to follow for subsistence; calling; vocation; employment; as the learned professions. We speak of the profession of a clergyman, of a lawyer, and of a physician or surgeon; the profession of lecturer on chimistry or mineralogy. But the word is not applied to an occupation merely mechanical.
5. The collective body of persons engaged in a calling. We speak of practices honorable or disgraceful to a profession
6. Among the Romanists, the entering into a religious order, by which a person offers himself to God by a vow of inviolable obedience, chastity and poverty.
1. The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith.
3. That of which one professed knowledge; the occupation, if not mechanical, agricultural, or the like, to which one devotes one's self; the business which one professes to understand, and to follow for subsistence; calling; vocation; employment; as, the profession of arms; the profession of a clergyman, lawyer, or physician; the profession of lecturer on chemistry.
4. The collective body of persons engaged in a calling; as, the profession distrust him.
5. The act of entering, or becoming a member of, a religious order.
Pertaining to a profession or to a calling; as professional studies, pursuits, duties, engagements; professional character or skill.
1. Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct.
2. Engaged in by professionals; as, a professional race; -- opposed to amateur.
A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a professional worker.
The following of a profession, sport, etc., as an occupation; -- opposed to amateurism.
professional person.
1. By profession or declaration. He is professionally a friend to religion.
2. By calling; as one employed professionally
In a professional manner or capacity; by profession or calling; in the exercise of one's profession; one employed professionally.
1. One who makes open declaration of his sentiments or opinions; particularly, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church.
1. One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church.
2. One who professed, or publicly teaches, any science or branch of learning; especially, an officer in a university, college, or other seminary, whose business it is to read lectures, or instruct students, in a particular branch of learning; as a professor of theology, of botany, of mathematics, or of political economy.
Pertaining to a professor; as the professorial chair.
Of or pertaining to a professor; as, the professional chair; professional interest.
The character, manners, or habits of a professor.
See Professoriate.
1. The body of professors, or the professorial staff, in a university or college.
2. A professorship.
The office of a professor or public teacher of the sciences.
The office or position of a professor, or public teacher.
Pertaining to a professor.
Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial.
Affirmation Roget’s Thesaurus §535
N. affirmance, affirmation, statement, allegation, assertion, predication, declaration, word, averment, confirmation, asseveration, adjuration, swearing, oath, affidavit, deposition, avouchment, assurance, protest, protestation, profession, acknowledgment, legal pledge, pronouncement, solemn averment, solemn avowal, solemn declaration, remark, observation, position, saying, dictum, sentence, ipse dixit, emphasis, weight, dogmatism, dogmatics
V. assert, make an assertion, have one's say, say, affirm, predicate, declare, state, protest, profess, put forth, put forward, advance, allege, propose, propound, enunciate, broach, set forth, hold out, maintain, contend, pronounce, pretend, depose, depone, aver, avow, avouch, asseverate, swear, make oath, take one's oath, make an affidavit, swear an affidavit, put in an affidavit, take one's bible oath, kiss the book, vow, vitam impendere vero, swear till one is black in the face, swear till one is blue in the face, swear till all's blue, be sworn, call heaven to witness, vouch, warrant, certify, assure, swear by bell book and candle, swear by, insist upon, take one's stand upon, emphasize, lay stress on, assert roundly, assert positively, lay down, lay down the law, raise one's voice, dogmatize, have the last word, rap out, repeat, reassert, reaffirm, announce, acknowledge, attest, adjure
Adj. asserting, declaratory, predicatory, pronunciative, affirmative, soi-disant, positive, certain, express, explicit, absolute, emphatic, flat, broad, round, pointed, marked, distinct, decided, confident, trenchant, dogmatic, definitive, formal, solemn, categorical, peremptory, unretracted, predicable
Adv. affirmatively, in the affirmative, with emphasis, ex-cathedra, without fear of contradiction, as god is my witness, i must say, indeed, i' faith, let me tell you, why, give me leave to say, marry, you may be sure, i'd have you to know, upon my word, upon my honor, by my troth, egad, i assure you, by jingo, by jove, by george, &c, troth, seriously, sadly, in sadness, in sober sadness, in truth, in earnest, of a truth, truly, perdy, in all conscience, upon oath, be assured, yes, i'll warrant, i'll warrant you, i'll engage, i'll answer for it, i'll be bound, i'll venture to say, i'll take my oath, in fact, forsooth, joking apart, so help me god, not to mince the matter
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14 KJV and 5 BSB verses contain “Profess”
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,
Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;
Because of the proof this ministry provides, the saints will glorify God for your obedient confession of the gospel of Christ, and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all the others.
But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess to worship God.
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made the good confession before many witnesses.
which some have professed and thus swerved away from the faith. Grace be with you all.
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.
Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.
Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we profess.
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
Let us hold resolutely to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.
He professeth to have the knowledge of God: and he calleth himself the child of the Lord.
Without eyes thou shalt want light: profess not the knowledge therefore that thou hast not.
Neither was it lawful for a man to keep sabbath days or ancient fasts, or to profess himself at all to be a Jew.