adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a professed socialist
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Celia's professed admiration for her sister worried their parents.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Because of his professed preference for isolation, it would take considerable time before Ewan was missed by other personnel on the base.
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But concord and harmony were the professed and accepted norm for the conduct of relations.
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But generally these researches have been regarded as a branch of historical studies, suitably only for professed historians.
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But, although a professed and conforming Anglican, he was often reviled as an atheist.
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Marriage was forbidden to priests and to professed religious.
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Now the other young man never believed any of his professed and contradictory reasons in the first place.