How To Use Professed In A Sentence

As a life-long Sox fan, Thomma professed deep offense at being put in the Cubs section when he blogged: ...in a crime against nature, your correspondent - a genuine White Sox fan, a man who attended his first twi-night double header at the Old Comiskey in 1963, who sat behind third base for the 50th anniversary All Star Game there in '83--has been assigned a seat in the Cubs section. Archive 2008-11-25
I know by my family history that a forebear of mine turned on the gods of Mother India and professed faith to the One True God.
She's a self-professed supporter of prison reform.
During the whole of the thirteenth century, and for some time afterwards, the Hojo continued to govern the country; and it is noteworthy that these regents never assumed the title of shogun, but professed to be merely shogunal deputies. Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation
But concord and harmony were the professed and accepted norm for the conduct of relations.

He had never professed love, just a lustful possessive desire that fueled the cruelty in his obsession.
Lord George professed that he had observed the same thing; but then, as he whispered into Mr. Nappie's ear, Mr. Greystock was particularly known as a bashful man. The Eustace Diamonds
It was as if a professed unbeliever in ghosts should be frightened by a ghost story.
The second unsuccessful attempt to be professed had a transforming effect on him. Times, Sunday Times
Never for a moment did I doubt the acceptability to an investment banker of a professed love of money.
Some male executives make a point of brewing their own coffee to symbolize their professed non-sexist orientation.
The captain professed great annoyance and indignation at what he termed the desertion of his ward, and demanded to know when the tutor proposed to return to his duties. Roger Ingleton, Minor
As discussed below, there are relatively few votes at issue here; it is fair to infer that, notwithstanding their professed confidence, the Democrats are expecting a very tight Senate race.
Her manner professed a gayety that she did not feel.
Nurse Jamieson had got on a favourite topic, and would have expatiated long enough, for she was a professed admirer of masculine beauty, but there was something which displeased the boy in her last simile; so he cut the conversation short, by asking whether she knew exactly how much money his grandfather had left with Dr. Gray for his maintenance. The Surgeon's Daughter
Bacher professed himself pleased with the Indian tour.
I was beginning to feel all tingly as he gazed into the limpid pool of my eyes and professed his honorable intentions.
The false {198} teachers professed to be "teachers of the Law" (1 Tim.i. 7), which was exactly the title claimed by the Jewish rabbis (see Luke v. 17). The Books of the New Testament
Only one or two openly professed what may be called anarchistic views, and these were young students, recent arrivals, who looked more like robbing an orchard than threatening a throne. From Paris to New York by Land
She professed to find all the fuss a bit much. Times, Sunday Times
The conversation arrested its discursive nature, to settle upon a political chief, the highest in fame and station of that party to which Mivers professed -- not to belong, he belonged to himself alone, but to appropinquate. Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 04
Susan Smith was professedly guilty of the murders
True sore winners, they bristled with outrage at being judged for their results, not their professed intentions.
Why was there no discussion about helping her, rather than forcing her to publicly allocute the ways in which her life was made a living hell, by the man that professed to love her. Archive 2009-10-01
I'm rather sceptical about their professed sympathy for the poor.
And I found what is professed to be a Zone-4-hardy raspberry-pink silene (catchfly). Christian Science Monitor | All Stories
She ignored my professed desire to help people. TUNNEL VISIONS: Journeys of an Underground Philosopher
She's a self-professed supporter of prison reform.
The self-professed vegetarian craved and ate chicken regularly during the first year of her recovery. Globe and Mail
In Brazil, where Germany made one of its strongest thrusts into Latin America, German immigrants professed greater loyalty to the Brazilian state than to the kaiser.
Date one was with a self-professed witch. Times, Sunday Times
When, however, the little insignificant figure we have described approached so nigh as to receive some interruption from the warders, he dashed his dusky green turban from his head, showed that his beard and eyebrows were shaved like those of a professed buffoon, and that the expression of his fantastic and writhen features, as well as of his little black eyes, which glittered like jet, was that of a crazed imagination. The Talisman
In spite of their professed desire to modernize, many Qing officials believed that the basic principles of Chinese statecraft were based on Confucian prescriptions.
She shrieked and wailed but professed ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
a group of effete self-professed intellectuals
The problem is that their professed ideals are at odds with their lack of self-awareness.
Le Prince's comments were echoed nearly forty years later by another visitor to the library, the British antiquarian and self-professed ‘bibliomaniac’ Thomas Frognall Dibdin.
a professed philosopher
She professed to find all the fuss a bit much. Times, Sunday Times
And their professed adhesion to the economic formula of Socialism would not of itself be good enough to alter my attitude towards them.
Mivers professed -- not to belong, he belonged to himself alone, but to appropinquate. Kenelm Chillingly — Complete
In the Rabourdin bureau was a clerk who played the man of courage and audacity, professed the opinions of the Left centre, and rebelled against the tyrannies of Baudoyer as exercised upon what he called the unhappy slaves of that office. Bureaucracy
A modest scholar never professed to have exhausted his subject.
her professed love of everything about that country
I am rather sceptical about their professed sympathy for the poor.
So much, to say the truth, seems to be ad-milted, by all but professed Atheists. Inspiration and Interpretation: Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford: With Preliminary Remarks: Being an Answer to a Volume Entitled "Essays and Reviews."
One-eyed Zeke and a celebrated hunter of the Bad Lands are the only men I have known who professed to have acquired the habit of hunting the Grizzly in such a fashion, and the celebrated Bad Lands ranchman did his killing with a rifle and always shot for the eye, which was the more remarkable because he was very near-sighted and wore eyeglasses. Bears I Have Met—and Others
He professed that the Emperor was the true sovereign of Japan.
Diplomacy is often compared to poker, even when conducted between professed friends.
is only professedly poor
As a professed radical, he was to prove a singularly jaded observer of parliaments, parliamentary processes, and parliamentarians.
Montaigne described these pieces as Essais and thus coined a new literary term, but he professed to have no interest in expanding literary horizons or in educating his readers.
His professed love for things other than club-friendly material might be an indication of where Page's head is at, why it's not yet lost in the clouds of high-paying gigs and international renown.
These churches professed a belief in predestination, a theological tenet that suggests the futility of the ambitious pursuit of wealth.
It was not only dowries, alimentos, and other financial sums required by the convent that allowed professed daughters to remain connected to their families' property.
In 1515 an attempt by several individuals to circumvent the inheritance of the daughters of Francisco de Cueto and Juana de Ochoa, professed nuns at Santa Catalina, was uncovered.
Thousands professed to have found salvation in Christ through Templeton's preaching.
So the object of my desires has just professed her true feelings for me, what now?
And how does his meaner streak fit in with his self-professed harmlessness? Times, Sunday Times
This is the self-professed political and behavioristic molt - affected this time by Newt Gingrich, but regularly affected as well by the president and various others over the centuries, most notably Richard M. Nixon of the "" new Nixon, '' the "" new new Nixon, '' etc., of yore. Brutus Denies All
She professed herself satisfied with the progress so far.
They professed optimism about the outcome.
Berkeley, although his professed aim was merely "to remove the mist and veil of words" which hindered the clear vision of the truth, passed from empirical immaterialism to a system of Platonic mysticism based on the metaphysical principle of causality. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
Goldsmith has a lightness and delicate ease which belongs rather to the school of the earlier eighteenth century than to his own day; the enthusiasm of Addison for French literature which he retained gave him a more graceful model than the "Johnsonian" school, to which he professed himself to belong, could afford. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge
She professed total ignorance of the matter.
She professed to find all the fuss a bit much. Times, Sunday Times
Of course, ‘poetic’ is what poets professed to be avoiding in those days and, indeed, throughout history, ‘poetic’ being a form of falsity and artifice peculiar to all preceding generations of poetasters.
Of all the doctor factors examined, only doctors who professed a special interest in diabetes achieved significantly better glycaemic control.
To these professed atheists, we may well add that impious and carnal crew of worldly-minded men, impenitent sinners, that go to hell in a lethargy, or in a dream; who though they be professed Anatomy of Melancholy
He professed to be an expert on Islamic art.
Can she who professed delicacy of sentiment and sincere regard for me, use me so very basely and so very cruelly?
Although they professed to be atheists, the ferrymen muttered among themselves about the wrath of Maera, the River Goddess. TREASON KEEP
He professed himself unable to understand the surliness displayed bysome of his hosts; he seemed to think they should be grateful to him. FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
Bacher professed himself pleased with the Indian tour.
His main concern is not to do or say anything which may offend the party bosses or which goes against the professed stand of the party.
The cutting off the hair being a recognized sign of uncleanness (Le 14: 8, 9), its unpolled luxuriance was a symbol of the purity he professed. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
In other cases hospital workers have professed ignorance of the scheme. Times, Sunday Times
Her manner professed a gaiety that she did not feel.
As a professed radical, he was to prove a singularly jaded observer of parliaments, parliamentary processes, and parliamentarians.
Whether this attitude has been due to a sincere belief in the Allies 'professed ideals, or whether by the fixing of blame on an irresponsible official who has exceeded his authority, the French are being offered a loophole to retreat from an intenable position without "losing face," I don't know. Peking Dust
He was professed in 1965 in the Capuchin Order, a religious order dedicated to following the traditions of St. Francis of Assisi.
Perhaps Neruda's most endearing quality, aside from his self-professed likeness to a tapir, was his respect for poetry as an occupation.
Its professed objective is not to debunk religion, and Wade tries hard to avoid the antitheistic materialism of high-profile Darwinian faith-debunkers such as Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and Jerry Coyne. Commonweal Magazine
practices entirely antithetical to her professed beliefs
He is, despite his multiple and self-professed flaws, strangely charismatic, painfully honest and funny. Times, Sunday Times
For openers, Nordegren, whose ex-husband has been fodder for tabloid headlines and talk-show jabs for the last nine months, professed to have had no idea that he was cheating and said she was "blindsided" by the affairs. Tiger Woods' ex-wife Elin Nordegren: 'I've been through hell'
The reader should recollect, that I have often called the public attention to the conduct of this said professed Jacobin Tailor; for instance, when Sir Francis Burdett left the Tower, and the procession was got up for him, Tailor Place undertook to attend, and to take the management of those who were on horseback; but when the time arrived, the Tailor _forgot to attend_, although he was one of the most violent against the Baronet, for going over the water and deceiving the people. Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3
Her manner professed a gaiety that she did not feel.
As if truly he had prayed in vain; or had feignedly professed that the remedy was in the hand of God. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
The teacher professed that he was not generous when it came to giving good grades
By which they both meant that any professed happiness must swiftly pass, strained through gritted teeth.
Whenever hurt feelings are professed, there is also a prepared story that ‘gives reason’ for the assumption of political emotion.
He professed himself satisfied with the progress made.
Despite his self-professed ‘taste for pleasure,’ Morris was a dynamo of committee work, never flinching from long nights of tedious but necessary administrative scutwork in often atrocious conditions.
While large numbers of Americans professed religious belief, the depth of their conviction appeared weak.
Peirce's Hegelianism, which he increasingly professed as he approached his most mature philosophy, is more difficult to understand than his Kantianism, partly because it is everywhere intimately tied to his entire late theory of signs (semeiotic) and sign use (semeiosis), as well as to his evolutionism and to his rather puzzling doctrine of mind. Nobody Knows Nothing
By contrast, professed believers claim that only bodily processes cease at death - some kind of spiritual/mental existence continues.
There lived then in Houndsditch one Alexander Hart, who had been a soldier formerly, a comely old man, of good aspect; he professed questionary astrology, and a little of physick; his greatest skill was to elect young gentlemen fit times to play at dice, that they might win or get money. William Lilly's History of His Life and Times
Throughout the years consumers have professed their lifelong love of America's number one mustard.
He professed to be content with the arrangement.
Feeling the professed frustration of Christine O'Donnell's lack of "public events," Rachel Maddow and the producers of the Rachel Maddow Show made a quick jaunt to the Republican Senate candidate's campaign headquarters on Tuesday, only to be booted from the office. Rachel Maddow Show Producers Talk About Getting 'Bounced' From Christine O'Donnell Headquarters (VIDEO)
The director, when queried, professed to have an insufficient staff to uncrate the objects I had requested and, furthermore, the process would be impractical considering their value and fragility.
It initially professed to arbitrage international fixed income markets but over time got significantly into equities.
She shrieked and wailed but professed ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
Fortunately, there seems to be little evidence that Prendergast's team of translators shares his professed desire to rough Proust up a bit.
It is neither smart nor attractive for liberals, the self-professed champions of the little people, to scorn the vast majority of their fellow citizens as mindless yahoos.
He had never professed love, just a lustful possessive desire that fueled the cruelty in his obsession.
V. iii.129 (478,1) Behold, it is the privilege of mine honours,/My oath, and my profession] The _privilege_ of this _oath_ means the privilege gained by taking the oath administered in the regular initiation of a knight professed. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
Two professed Lives of Mahomet have been composed by Dr. Prideaux (Life of Mahomet, seventh edition, London, 1718, in octavo) and the count de Boulainvilliers, (Vie de Mahomed, Londres, 1730, in octavo:) but the adverse wish of finding an impostor or a hero, has too often corrupted the learning of the doctor and the ingenuity of the count. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
In other cases hospital workers have professed ignorance of the scheme. Times, Sunday Times
After that very day, where they professed their feelings for each other, Matthew and I spent almost all of all time together, alone.
Bacher professed himself pleased with the Indian tour.
But despite her professed desire for a quiet life, there will be no such rest for Francesca. Times, Sunday Times
He professed to feeling proudest of all about lending his name to rhyming slang. Times, Sunday Times
She shrieked and wailed but professed ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
She entered the Order in 1964 and was professed in April of 1967.
How many professed atheists are there in Congress?
He professed to be an expert on Islamic art.
They all despaired of obtaining it from the coalesced powers, whilst they had a gang of professed regicides at their head; and several of the least desperate republicans would have joined with better men to shake them wholly off, and to produce something more ostensible, if they had not been reiteratedly told that their sole hope of peace was the very contrary to what they naturally imagined: that they must leave off their cabals and insurrections, which could serve no purpose but to bring in that royalty which was wholly rejected by the coalesced kings; that, to satisfy them, they must tranquilly, if they could not cordially, submit themselves to the tyranny and the tyrants they despised and abhorred. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)
And the dimensionless point inherent in every human being whatever their professed beliefs, is the point of access for courage, wisdom, selfless service, and love. Kabir Helminski: Christopher Hitchens is "Not Great"
The Malaysian-born Sebastian is a Pentecostal Christian teacher from Adelaide, and professed virgin.
[AU] One of the ablest mathematicians, and the most persevering Hamiltono-mastix of the day, maintains the applicability of the metaphysical notion of infinity to mathematical magnitudes; but with an assumption which unintentionally vindicates Hamilton's position more fully than could have been done by a professed disciple. The Philosophy of the Conditioned
The mention of ‘kilos’ is not only anachronistic but contrary to the translator's professed policy.
She professed to hate her nickname.
His inability to interact is awkwardly veiled under his professed love and concern for the world. Sound Politics: McDermott: Bring Back Baath Party
It was a solid gold gammadion pendant on a matching chain, one of those worn by every professed Brother of Zeth. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
The novelist professed to give an imitation of nature, but it was, as the French say, _la belle nature_. Famous Reviews
So, as a metropolitan self-professed 'country bumpkin', where do you end up? Times, Sunday Times
Holyfield, who professed to be a born-again Christian, thanked God in his postfight news conference. Called to Coach
And I haven't mentioned the deep manly love that Palamon and Arcite profess for one another when they are not competing to win Emilia, nor Emilia's early professed deep womanly love for the otherwise unmentioned Flavinia (though if I was directing this I would make her the jailer's daughter). Linkspam for 28-5-2009
Her manner professed a gayety that she did not feel.
The conversation became at once professional after the briefest preliminaries, and he would stand twirling a sweet-scented sprig in his fingers, and make suggestive jokes, perhaps about her faith in a too persistent course of thoroughwort elixir, in which my landlady professed such firm belief as sometimes to endanger the life and usefulness of worthy neighbors. 3 Mrs. Todd
Bottoms's own professed interest in Jung also invites that particular psychological approach.
Mutch les is it lawfull for them which haue professed the name of Christe/and are signed with holy baptisme/in that fierce fight betwene Christe and A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the sam
Prosecutors said Saturday that the professed psychic is being held on charges ranging from grave robbery to conspiracy to mislead officials.
Because of his professed preference for isolation, it would take considerable time before Ewan was missed by other personnel on the base.
So was the mystery of iniquity consummated; for whereas the pope, to secure his new acquisitions, endeavoured to empale the title and privileges of the catholic church unto those Christians which professed obedience unto himself, unto an exclusion of a greater number, there ensued such a confusion of the catholic and a particular church, as that both of them were almost utterly lost. A Discourse concerning Evangelical Love, Church Peace, and Unity
A professed lesbian and the only daughter to have left home, she is now a successful university professor who has no intentions of leaving her life in Minneapolis.
So the significance of these NT saints is not that they eventually professed faith in Christ but that Edwards says they were regenerated before they made that explicit profession.
Here, too, the line of the extant culture, -- the narrow indented boundary of the _culture_ that professed to take all is always defining the new, -- cutting out the wild not yet visited by the art of man; -- only here the criticism is much more lively, because here 'we come _to particulars_,' a thing which the new philosophy -- much insists on; and though this want in learning, and the wildness it leaves, is that which makes tragedies in this method of exhibition; it has its comical aspect also; and this is the laughing and weeping philosopher in one who manages these representations; and in this case it is the comical aspect of the subject that is seized on. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
Whether in denial or putting on a brave face, the delegates professed to be unperturbed by those numbers.
He professed to feeling proudest of all about lending his name to rhyming slang. Times, Sunday Times
As for Switters, despite his professed hunger for baby lamb cakes, he was primarily a consumer of fish and vegetables, so he swam against the kitchen and ordered ceviche, picking warily at it, for, predictably, it was not the dewiest ceviche in town. Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
This has caused critics to grumble that despite their professed free-thinking, Apple aficionados are actually suffused with groupthink. It's an interesting irony.
The product contains the professed memory-booster phosphatidylserine and sells for a whopping $60 for 144 pieces; a company spokesman concedes that it's "" probably the most expensive gum in the world. '' Candy And Coffee Are The New Health Foods? We Wish.
Their professed aim is to encourage democracy.
Since propinquity is a common source of tensions, most particular attention was paid to avoiding intercommunion with other Lutherans who professed a seductive approximation of doctrinal agreement.
McKinley was assassinated by a professed anarchist
As demonstrated earlier, professed nuns were able to use their renuncias to assign property to relatives and causes of their own choosing, thereby further partitioning a family's property.
She professed a belief in God.
He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt
Edward Waverley departed from the Hall amid the blessings and tears of all the old domestics and the inhabitants of the village, mingled with some sly petitions for sergeantcies and corporalships, and so forth, on the part of those who professed that 'they never thoft to ha' seen Jacob, and Giles, and Jonathan go off for soldiers, save to attend his honour, as in duty bound. ' Waverley — Complete
He professed that his mama had birthed him in a cotton field, cut her own cord, tied him to her back and then kept on working.
She professed to find all the fuss a bit much. Times, Sunday Times
It was a recording of a phone conversation allegedly between the Princess and an admirer, who professed his love for her.
His baptismal name was Tadhg, but when he was professed in Louvain as a Franciscan lay brother, he took the name of Míchéal.
For many nuns their status as a professed religious did not necessarily obviate access to various parts of familial patrimony.
Could we not argue instead that his professed beliefs merely reflect the needs of the hour?
It was not, strictly speaking, as a professed depredator that Rob Roy now conducted his operations, but as a sort of contractor for the police; in Scottish phrase, a lifter of black-mail. Rob Roy
To be plaine, I am voyde of al judgement, if your nine Com{oe}dies, whereunto, in imitation of Herodotus, you give the names of the Nine Muses, and (in one man's fansie not unworthily), come not neerer Ariostoes Com{oe}dies, eyther for the finenesse of plausible elocution, or the rareness of poetical invention, than that Elvish queene doth to his Orlando Furioso, which notwithstanding, you will needes seem to emulate, and hope to overgo, as you flatly professed yourself in one of your last letters. A Biography of Edmund Spenser
He was the mushers' choice for best sportsman among the pack, and he professed to be unable to see why.
And because iniquity, etc. The word iniquity here seems to include the cruelty of the Jews and Romans in their persecutions; the betraying of Christians by those who professed to be such; and the pernicious errors of false prophets and others. Barnes New Testament Notes
But concord and harmony were the professed and accepted norm for the conduct of relations.
Residents yesterday professed themselves baffled yesterday by the resettlement plan. Times, Sunday Times
Even in the Tridentine world which demanded strict claustration of all solemnly professed religious women, these women monitored the finances of their families and insisted upon the prompt payment of various sums.
I have never seen a self-professed sports geek throw like this before in my life (well, except for when he threw out the first pitch at last year's allstar game). Obama throws out first pitch at Nationals home opener
Throughout the novel Doc remains loyal to his male characters, even the Weasel, his professed nemesis.
It would be shameful and alarming if the United Kingdom professed a deliberate intention to contract out of recognising that difference.
Louis XI, an habitual derider of whatever did not promise real power or substantial advantage, was in especial a professed contemner of heralds and heraldry, “red, blue, and green, with all their trumpery,” to which the pride of his rival Charles, which was of a very different kind, attached no small degree of ceremonious importance. Quentin Durward
The danger is that we should confuse the reputability of beliefs, and the reputability of those who professed them, with depth or shallowness.
It's harder yet to grasp its significance: the rant against the Roman Antichrist, the intolerance to all outside God's true church, the professed loyalty to the King's Majesty are now alien.
He earned his doctorate in Roman history at the Sorbonne, and has professed that subject for many years at the University of Paris.
Hereby", he said, "it appears that either Greenwell told you out of confession, and then there would be no secrecy: or, if it were in confession, he professed no penitency, and therefore you could not absolve him. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
That sort of unintended leverage greatly sweetened the deal on behalf of the professed owners, a lot more than the intruders cared to admit to each other.
In other cases hospital workers have professed ignorance of the scheme. Times, Sunday Times
The 62-year-old, silver-haired Strauss-Kahn said nothing as a lawyer professed his innocence and strove in vain to get him released on bail. IMF chief jailed without bail in NY hotel-sex case
Crumwell had alwayes professed a more then ordinary animosity, and though the sceane of his imprysonment had bene altred, accordinge to the alterations of the goverments which succeeded, yett he never founde himselfe in compleate liberty, till the kinge was proclaymed by the Parliament, and then he thought it not necessary to repayre into Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles
The way this has been announced contrasts sharply with their professed belief in partnership.
Sniffle wor a karacter in his way, he seemed to have a bit ov a smatterin 'o' iverything, but what he professed to know th 'mooast abaat wor dogs an rats. Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley
These gatherings are a major event for professed evangelicals in the Church of England.
And as a self professed geek; bamber+penikett+dushku+denisof AND acker = one very happy whedon/moore fan! 'Dollhouse' premiere: Lies within lies and hot geek-chic sex | EW.com
One, for example, professed all manner of translation, at so much per sheet, and actually kept five or six amanuenses continually employed, like so many clerks in a counting-house, by which means he was enabled to live at his ease, and enjoy his friend and his bottle, ambitious of no other character than that of an honest man and a good neighbour. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
Abbot John says of himself that he had passed from the solitary life, in which he was professed, to a less severe life, namely of those who lived in community, because the hermetical life had fallen into decline and laxity. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
In this amorphousness, he was in tune with the religious tone of the postwar years, when (in a 1947 poll) religious leaders ranked highest for their contributions to national well-being, outranking politicians and businessmen, and (in 1957) 96 percent of Americans professed membership in a church or synagogue. The Chosen Peoples
However, it should be said that urban "hipsters" have adopted many aspects of the stereotypically rural aesthetic, such as bushy beards, old flannel shirts, affinity for cheap beer, and a professed appreciation for country and folk music. Ambiguity: Mixed Messages and Style Overlap
Yet Hepworth consistently professed a Romantic attitude of emotional affinity with nature, speaking of carving both as a ‘biological necessity’ and as an ‘extension of the telluric forces which mould the landscape’.
The school of Buddhism now professed in Ceylon, Burma and Siam is often called Sinhalese and (provided it is not implied that its doctrines originated in Ceylon) the epithet is correct. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3
Some newshawks have professed to detect Davenport style and Willkie rhetoric.
The people were evidently strongly "secesh," although some of them professed to be glad to see us. Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865
He professed that he knew nothing about the plot.
It may seem that his ego is out of control, but the self-professed genius is an incredible, undeniable talent. Times, Sunday Times
Then I shed a couple of tears and professed undying love.
Please remember that I speak of Islam as taught by the Qur'an itself and not "Muhammadanism" as professed by _some_ so-called followers of the Notes on Islam
Male monasteries did not require dowries of their professed members and represented less of a threat to the family patrimony.
Self-professed “foodies” take note: the glorious Momofuk (y) u emperor is actually naked. Baoguette Wins Lunch’er Organized “Banh-Mi-Palooza” | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
Gregor is a typical example of the self-professed â€œliberalsâ€ who pollute Think Progressâ€ ™ threads with hate-filled language, racial slurs, sexual and scatological references, as well as openly insulting comments about anyone who disagrees with them. Think Progress » Coulter on Murtha: He Longs â€œTo See U.S. Troops Shot, Humiliated”
He had always wished to be a Jesuit, and, after a novitiate which is described as most edifying, he became a professed member of the Order. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century
Both eminent scientists also have in common that the image of their inheritance professed to the common university trained economic scholars ( 'cutes') is a highly restricted caricature of the fullnes of their essential insights and contributions, and students of sociology or politicology may even finish their academic studies without ever having heard the name of Pareto. AvaxHome RSS:
After a brief conversation, finding her sentiments unchanged, and hearing from her lips a protestation that, though it were to cost her her life, she would never swerve from the principles she had professed at their last meeting, he exclaimed desperately, By God, Florida, your scruples shall not deprive me of the fruit of my toils. The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
This lasted a short while, however, and she shed her veil and habit for chinchilla and diamonds – though she professed to remain devout, having a copy of The Imitation of Christ by her bedside. Cocotte of the Week: Liane de Pougy | Edwardian Promenade

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