Definition of Learned profession

1. Noun. One of the three professions traditionally believed to require advanced learning and high principles.

Generic synonyms: Profession
Specialized synonyms: Law, Practice Of Law, Medicine, Practice Of Medicine, Theology

Lexicographical Neighbors of Learned Profession

learier
leariest
learing
learn
learn'd
learn the hard way
learn the ropes
learnabilities
learnability
learnable
learne
learned
learned drive
learned helplessness
learned person
learned profession (current term)
learned reaction
learned response
learned societies
learned society
learned the hard way
learned treatise
learned treatises
learnedly
learnedness
learnednesses
learner
learner's dictionary
learner's permit
learners

Literary usage of Learned profession

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Magazine of Art by American Federation of Arts (1918)
"FINE ART AS A learned profession BY WM. L. JUDSON Dean, College of Fine Arts, University of Southern California IT is interesting to note the embarrassed ..."

2. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1879)
"We have so far attempted to show that, even accepting the writer's hypothesis as to the unities of a learned profession, the arguments he adduces are ..."

3. The Care of Dependent, Neglected, and Wayward Children: Being a Report of by Anna Garlin Spencer, Charles Wesley Birtwell (1894)
"Theology is regarded as a learned profession, yet it would be hardly safe to ... We believe that philanthropy is to take its place as a learned profession, ..."

4. Public Libraries and Popular Education by Herbert Baxter Adams (1900)
"... the academic degrees established for the New York state library school, recognized librarianship as a learned profession in the university curriculum. ..."

5. The Indiana School Journal by Indiana State Teachers Association (1861)
"TEACHING AS A learned profession, AND ITS COMPENSATION. The business of teaching is fast rising in the respect of the world, and is now bold enough to ..."

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