profess

1. (перехідне)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. (зворотне)To declare oneself (to be something).

   They've professed themselves delighted with the results.

   sich zu etwas bekennen

3. (перехідне й неперехідне)To declare; to assert, affirm.

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

   провозглашатьprovozglašatʹ

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

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

   преподава́тьprepodavátʹ

7. (архаїчне, перехідне)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.

   ruОн делает вид, что не замечает этот факт.

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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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