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Overview of noun professing

The noun professing has 1 sense


  • profession, professing -- (an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion; "a profession of disagreement")


Overview of verb profess

The verb profess has 7 senses


  • profess -- (practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about; "She professes organic chemistry")

  • profess -- (confess one's faith in, or allegiance to; "The terrorists professed allegiance to their country"; "he professes to be a Communist")

  • concede, profess, confess -- (admit (to a wrongdoing); "She confessed that she had taken the money")

  • profess -- (state freely; "The teacher professed that he was not generous when it came to giving good grades")

  • profess -- (receive into a religious order or congregation)

  • profess -- (take vows, as in religious order; "she professed herself as a nun")

  • profess, pretend -- (state insincerely; "He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt"; "She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber"; "She pretends to be an expert on wine")