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Definition: Professing |
ProfessingNoun1. An open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion; "a profession of disagreement". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "professing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonym: ProfessingSynonym: profession (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Professing |
| English words defined with "professing": Adamite ♦ Christian church, Christianity, church, Confessionist ♦ Do-little ♦ fortune telling ♦ hypocritical ♦ Polytheistical, professed ♦ Southcottian. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "professing": Nicolaitanes ♦ Vanity. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "professing": Profess. (references) |
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| Author | Quotation |
Elbert Hubbard | Live truth instead of professing it. |
Thomas Henry Huxley | Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Brunei | The Constitution states that, "The religion of Brunei Darussalam shall be the Muslim religion according to the Shafeite sect of that religion: Provided that all other religions may be practiced in peace and harmony by the person professing them in any part of Brunei Darussalam;" however, the Government routinely restricts the practice of non-Islamic religions. (references) |
Economic History | Benin | The last of these brought to power Major Mathieu Kérékou as the head of a regime professing strict Marxist-Leninist principles. (references) |
Political Rights | Uganda | The Government maintained, at government expense, the Movement Secretariat, an organization that roughly parallels government institutions and is limited to those professing support for the Movement. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass. They say that hens do cackle loudest when There's nothing vital in the eggs they've laid; And there are hens, professing to have made A study of mankind, who say that men Whose business 'tis to drive the tongue or pen Make the most clamorous fanfaronade O'er their most worthless work; and I'm afraid They're not entirely different from the hen. Lo! the drum-major in his coat of gold, His blazing breeches and high-towering cap -- Imperiously pompous, grandly bold, Grim, resolute, an awe-inspiring chap! Who'd think this gorgeous creature's only virtue Is that in battle he will never hurt you? Hannibal Hunsiker |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | By some of the other belligerents, although professing just and amicable dispositions, injuries materially affecting our commerce have not been duly controlled or repressed. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | That officer, professing his own want of authority to make satisfaction for our just complaints, answered only by a reference of them to the Government of Spain. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Professing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 89.29% of the time. "Professing" is used about 28 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 89.29% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.14% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.57% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 28 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
board message professing | 20 |
professing | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "professing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 公开宣称 (Profess, Professed). (various references) | ||||
German | erklärend (declarative, declaring, explaining, explanatory, expository, expounding, illustrative, interpretative, melding). (various references) | ||||
Hebrew | "'יל" (hoisting the flag). (various references) | ||||
Indonesian | kesaksian (evidence, professing faith, testimony). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 触れ込み (passing oneself off as, professing to be). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | ふれ"み (passing oneself off as, professing to be). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ofessingpray | ||||
| Language | Date | Source | Romans Chapter 1, Verse 22 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | FaskonteV einai sofoi emwranqhsan |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Dicentes enim se esse sapientes stulti facti sunt |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Þeah þe hi geanwyrdon wis to beonne, wurðon hi dwæs |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For thei `seiynge that hem silf weren wise, thei weren maad foolis. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | When they couted them selves wyse they became foles and turned the glory of the immortall god vnto the similitude of the ymage of mortall man and of byrdes and foure foted beastes and of serpentes. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Romans Chapter 1, Verse 22 |
| Cebuano | Sa ilang pagpakamakinaadmanon, nahimo hinoon silang mga boang, |
| Chinese | 自 稱 為 聰 明 、 反 成 了 愚 拙 、 |
| Croatian | Gradeæi se mudrima, poludješe i |
| Danish | Idet de påstode at være vise, bleve de Dårer |
| Dutch | Zich uitgevende voor wijzen, zijn zij dwaas geworden; |
| Finnish | Kehuessaan viisaita olevansa he ovat tyhmiksi tulleet |
| French | Se vantant d`être sages, ils sont devenus fous; |
| German | Da sie sich für Weise hielten, sind sie zu Narren geworden |
| Haitian Creole | Y'ap mache di se moun lespri yo ye. Men, se fou yo fin fou. |
| Hungarian | Magokat bölcseknek vallván, balgatagokká lettek; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Mereka merasa diri bijaksana, padahal mereka bodoh. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Dengan mengaku dirinya bijak, maka mereka itu menjadi bodoh, |
| Italian | Mentre si dichiaravano sapienti, sono diventati stolti |
| Maori | I a ratou e mea ana he mohio ratou, na ka wairangi, |
| Norwegian | Mens de gjorde sig til av å være vise, blev de dårer, |
| Portuguese | Dizendo-se sábios, tornaram-se estultos, |
| Rumanian | S`au fqlit cq sknt knyelepyi, wi au knebunit; |
| Russian | ОБЪЩЧБС УЕ'С НХ"ТЩНЙ, П'ЕЪХНЕМЙ, |
| Shuar | Tura ti nekajai Tuíniayat Enentáimcha Núnin ajasarai. |
| Spanish | Profesando ser sabios se hicieron fatuos, |
| Swahili | Wanajidai kuwa wenye hekima, kumbe ni wapumbavu. |
| Swedish | När de berömde sig av att vara visa, blevo de dårar |
| Uma | Ra'uli' pante-ra. Ntaa' wojo-radi! |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "professing" (pronounced prufe"sing) |
| 5 | -f e" s i ng | confessing. |
| 4 | -e" s i ng | acquiescing, addressing, assessing, blessing, caressing, coalescing, compressing, depressing, digressing, distressing, dressing, expressing, guessing, impressing, messing, obsessing, oppressing, possessing, pressing, progressing, reassessing, recessing, redressing, repressing, stressing, suppressing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | accessing, advancing, affixing, amassing, annexing, announcing, balancing, basing, bouncing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coaxing, coercing, collapsing, commencing, condensing, conferencing, conversing, convincing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, dancing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, denouncing, diagnosing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispensing, dispersing, displacing, distancing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enhancing, enticing, erasing, expensing, experiencing, facing, faxing, fencing, financing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, freelancing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, glancing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, increasing, indexing, inducing, influencing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, Lancing, lapsing, leasing, lensing, licensing, loosing, massing, menacing, mensing, mincing, missing, mixing, noticing, nursing, outdistancing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, pouncing, practicing, prancing, prejudicing, pricing, processing, producing, promising, pronouncing, pulsing, racing, rebalancing, reducing, referencing, refinancing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, renouncing, replacing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, rinsing, romancing, sacrificing, seducing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, servicing, showcasing, silencing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, subleasing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, teleconferencing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, trouncing, unceasing, unconvincing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, videoconferencing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wincing, wissing, witnessing, xeroxing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-g-i-n-o-p-r-s-s" | |
-2 letters: goriness, gossiper, perigons, pressing, reposing, ropiness, spongers, spongier, springes. | |
-3 letters: engross, epigons, eringos, fessing, fingers, foreign, fringes, frisson, grisons, ignores, ingress, orpines, perigon, persons, pigeons, pingers, pingoes, pirogen, poisers, porgies, presong, prisons, profess, prosing, prossie, regions, resigns, seniors, serpigo, signers, signore, signors, singers, snipers, sonsier, sorings, spinors, spinose, sponger, sponges, sporing, springe. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-g-i-n-o-p-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: fingerposts. | |
+2 letters: prefocussing. | |
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