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profess

C1 verb

profess /pɹəˈfɛs/ nghĩa là nhận vào dòng tu

Các nghĩa

  1. nhận vào dòng tu

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

    transitive

    This swayed the balance decisively in Mary's favour, and she was professed on 8 September 1578.

  2. tự xưng là

    To declare oneself (to be something).

    reflexive

    They've professed themselves delighted with the results.

    Kiefer professes himself amused by the fuss that ensued when he announced that he was buying the Mülheim-Kärlich reactor[…].

  3. tuyên bố, khẳng định

    To declare; to assert, affirm.

    ambitransitive

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

    He professes to haue receiued no sinister measure from his Iudge, but most willingly humbles himselfe to the determination of Iustice[…].

    The best and wisest of them all professed / To know this only, that he nothing knew.

  4. tự cho là, tự nhận là

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

    transitive

    Many profess to despise what secretly they hunger after.

    Ed Miliband professed ignorance of the comment when he was approached by the BBC later.

  5. tuyên xưng, công khai theo

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

    transitive

    The remainder of the population, about two-thirds, belongs to the Mongolian race and professes Buddhism.

  6. làm giáo sư, giảng dạy

    To work as a professor of; to teach.

    transitive

    he was a Spaniard, who about two hundred yeeres since professed Physicke in Tholouse[…].

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