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PROFESSING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion
Example:
a profession of disagreement
Synonyms:
professing; profession
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("professing" is a kind of...):
affirmation; avouchment; avowal (a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something)
Derivation:
profess (confess one's faith in, or allegiance to)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb profess
