0 to express a quality or belief, often when it is not true -- utrzymywać, twierdzić
[ + to do sth ] She professes to hate shopping, but she's always buying new things.
Of the 50 girls admitted as boarders between 1719 and 1745, 88 per cent later professed.
To what degree should a person who professes to value a particular identity be prepared to behave in ways that contribute to sustaining that identity?
The astonishment he professed was pure theatre for the record.
Communist rulers had been removed, not by outside interventions, but by the very working classes they professed to represent.
The movement's own promotional literature professed obedience to the state, and asserted that spiritual regeneration fostered peace and civic virtue.
Students of the built environment often profess a love of drawing.
While professing respect for that culture, the physicians insisted the family not be allowed to dictate useless treatment.
The liberalism they professed was never strong enough to exceed the limitations of the halfhear ted initiatives for reform which issued from the colonial administration.
