profess

1. (переходный)To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order.

   sich bekennen

   take vows, as in religious order

2. (возвратное)To declare oneself (to be something).

   They've professed themselves delighted with the results.

   sich zu etwas bekennen

3. (переходный и непереходный)To declare; to assert, affirm.

   Having professed her belief in the remedy, she had little choice but to try it.

   провозглашатьprovozglašatʹ

4. (переходный)To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.

   Many profess to despise what secretly they hunger after.

5. (переходный)To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).

6. (переходный)To work as a professor of; to teach.

   преподава́тьprepodavátʹ

7. (архаичное, переходный)To claim to have knowledge or understanding of (a given area of interest, subject matter).

1. He professed himself satisfied.

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2. He professes ignorance of the fact.

   Он делает вид, что не замечает этот факт. — Hellerick

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3. He professed to know nothing about it.

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4. They professed their undying love for each other.

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5. He professes that he had no connection with that affair.

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