Definition of "profest" []

• An amended spelling of professed.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "She was, besides, a profest follower of that noble sect founded by Xantippe of old; by means of which she became more formidable in the school than her husband; for, to confess the truth, he was never master there, or anywhere else, in her presence."
• "Can I believe the passion you have profest to me to be sincere?"
• "He was deeply read in the antients, and a profest master of all the works of Plato and Aristotle."