professed

comparative more professed · superlative most professed · alternative archaic profest

1. Openly declared or acknowledged.

   His professed religion was Catholicism.

2. Professing to be qualified.

   She is a professed expert in mechanics.

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   […] flowers, which, if not identical with our violets, sufficiently correspond to them for the purposes of readers who are not professed botanists.

   1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 8, page 128

3. Admitted to a religious order.

   The rule of the Perpetual Adoration is so strict that it horrifies; novices hold back, and the order is not recruited. In 1845 a few lay sisters were still found here and there, but no professed nuns.

   1887, chapter XI, in Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, transl., Les Misérables, volume II, Little, Brown, and Company, translation of original by Victor Hugo

alternative archaic profest

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of profess