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Definition of Professes
1. profess [v] - See also: profess
Lexicographical Neighbors of Professes
Literary usage of Professes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Charles John Crompton, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1835)
"... professes to justify; and that you are to look to the intro- Etch. of ductory
part of it to see what the plea professes to justify ? ..."
2. The Lancet (1842)
"If Mr. Hill declines giving any information upon a mode of treatment of which be
professes himself to be the originator, will your anonymous correspondent ..."
3. Publications by Oxford Historical Society (1885)
"In the edition of Asser which he printed at Frankfort, he professes in his preface
to follow, and actually does follow, Archbishop Parker's edition; ..."
4. The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution by David Hume, Tobias George Smollett (1825)
"The hereditary prince of Hesse- Cassel professes the Roman Catholic religion—§
XXXIX. Parliament of Paris recalled from exile—§ XL. ..."
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