profess

profess

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1. ilmoittaa

2. väittää, sanoa

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profess

1. väittää, tunnustaa, myöntää, tunnustaa kaikki, kakistaa ulos, tuoda julki, opettaa, luvata, vannoa, vakuuttaa, tehdä lupaus, julistaa.

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Liittyvät sanat: professionaalinen, professori, professorinvirka, professuuri.

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• proffa: professori

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profess suomeksi

ilmoittaa, opettaa, tuoda julki, tehdä lupaus, tunnustaa

profess englanniksi

• puhekieltä To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order. (Chiefly in passive.) (defdate)

• 2000, Butlers Lives of the Saints'', p.118:

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

• puhekieltä To declare oneself (to be something). (defdate)

• 2011, Alex Needham, The Guardian, 9 Dec.:

Kiefer professes himself amused by the fuss that ensued when he announced that he was buying the Mülheim-Kärlich reactor(nb..).

• puhekieltä To declare; to assert, affirm. (defdate)

• c. 1604, (w), Measure for Measure, First Folio 1623:

He professes to haue receiued no sinister measure from his Iudge, but most willingly humbles himselfe to the determination of Iustice(nb..).

• Milton

The best and wisest of them all professed / To know this only, that he nothing knew.

• 1974, ‘The Kansas Kickbacks’, Time, 11 Feb 1974:

The Governor immediately professed that he knew nothing about the incident.

• (quote-magazine)

• puhekieltä To make a claim (to be something), to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity. (defdate)

• 2010, Hélène Mulholland, The Guardian, 28 Sep 2010:

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

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

• 1983, Alexander Mcleish, The Frontier Peoples of India, Mittal Publications 1984, p.122:

The remainder of the population, about two-thirds, belongs to the Mongolian race and professes Buddhism.

• puhekieltä To work as a professor of; to teach. (defdate)

• (RQ:Flr Mntgn Essay), II.12:

he was a Spaniard, who about two hundred yeeres since professed Physicke in Tholouse(nb..).

• puhekieltä To claim to have knowledge or understanding of (a given area of interest, subject matter). (defdate)

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