Definition of "professing" []

• Present participle of profess. (verb)

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• "Christian contemporaries, and that their knowledge was mainly confined to mere commercial notation, an anonymous writer has shown how the modifications of form could be naturally made, in vol.ii. of the _Bath and Bristol Magazine_, pp. 393-412.; the motto being _valent quanti valet_, as well as the title professing it to be wholly "conjectural.""
• "Knowing that it is less surprising to find strongly pluralistic beliefs in a title professing to draw it's insights from the Christian tradition."
• "Then, and only then, will the United States have any credibility in professing a desire for democracy in the Middle East. wiley Says:"