verb (v)

• practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about(verb.communication)

  Example:
  She professes organic chemistry.
  

  source: wordnet30
• confess one's faith in, or allegiance to(verb.communication)

  Example:
  The terrorists professed allegiance to their country.
  He professes to be a Communist.
  

  source: wordnet30
• admit (to a wrongdoing)(verb.communication)

  Synonym:
  concede, confess
  

  source: wordnet30
• state freely(verb.communication)

  Example:
  The teacher professed that he was not generous when it came to giving good grades.
  

  source: wordnet30
• receive into a religious order or congregation(verb.communication)

  source: wordnet30
• take vows, as in religious order(verb.communication)

  Example:
  She professed herself as a nun.
  

  source: wordnet30
• state insincerely(verb.communication)

  Example:
  He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt.
  

  Synonym:
  pretend
  

  source: wordnet30
• To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely.(verb)

  source: webster1913
• To take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess.(verb)

  source: webster1913