PROFESSED
/pษนษหfษst/
15
Scrabble
16
WWF
P(3) R(1) O(1) F(4) E(1) S(1) S(1) E(1) D(2)
NWL/TWL ✓ Collins ✓ WWF ✓
Definition
/pษนษหfษst/
verb
- To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order. (Chiefly in passive.)
- To declare oneself (to be something).
- To declare; to assert, affirm.
- To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.
- To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).
adjective
- Openly declared or acknowledged.“His professed religion was Catholicism.”
- Professing to be qualified.“She is a professed expert in mechanics.”
Source: Wiktionary
