Associations to the word «Professed»

Wiktionary

PROFESSED, adjective. Professing to be qualified.
PROFESSED, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of profess

Dictionary definition

PROFESSED, adjective. Professing to be qualified; "a professed philosopher".
PROFESSED, adjective. Claimed with intent to deceive; "his professed intentions".
PROFESSED, adjective. Openly declared as such; "an avowed enemy"; "her professed love of everything about that country"; "McKinley was assassinated by a professed anarchist".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats