Third-person singular simple present indicative form of profess.(verb)
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Use "professes" in a sentence
"But since his commitment level to the ideals he professes is ZERO ... he can't remember how to stay on political track."
"After his death, three days after the barn-yard speech, the socialism he professes is drastically altered when Napoleon and the other pigs begin to dominate."
"The Roane volume, certainly the earliest in English, professes to have been printed by "Michal Wood" in 1553."