professed

English

Alternative forms

• profest (archaic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹəˈfɛst/

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• Rhymes: -ɛst
• Hyphenation: pro‧fessed

Adjective

professed (comparative more professed, superlative most professed)

1. Openly declared or acknowledged.

   His professed religion was Catholicism.

2. Professing to be qualified.

   She is a professed expert in mechanics.

   • 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 8, page 128:

     […] flowers, which, if not identical with our violets, sufficiently correspond to them for the purposes of readers who are not professed botanists.

3. Admitted to a religious order.
   • 1887, chapter XI, in Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, transl., Les Misérables‎^[1], volume II, Little, Brown, and Company, translation of original by Victor Hugo:

     The rule of the Perpetual Adoration is so strict that it horrifies; novices hold back, and the order is not recruited. In 1845 a few lay sisters were still found here and there, but no professed nuns.

Derived terms

• self-professed

 

Verb

professed

1. simple past and past participle of profess