The phrase "as a professed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to someone who has declared or stated a particular belief, identity, or profession.
Example: "As a professed advocate for environmental sustainability, she dedicates her time to raising awareness about climate change."
Alternatives: "as a declared" or "as a stated".
Hart described Carroll as: :"a professed Papist, and the first fomentor of our late Disturbances, who having acquired a large estate in the Province by the offices he formerly employed, and his practice in Law...must needs add the Ambition of Rule to his former Felicity".
He approaches justice as a professed Robin Hood, even while grousing that Robin Hood should have hung onto his profits.
JW: As a professed cinephile, did you allow any influences to seep into the making of Far North?
The stated reason is security, since Israel regards Hamas as a professed enemy and a terrorist group eager to expand its military expertise and power to the West Bank.
So I can only say to Aslan: As a professed disciple of Jesus the man and Jew, why aren't you a Jew? Bernard Starr is a psychologist, college professor, and journalist.
As a professing Christian of conservative theological bent, I find his discussion of the relationship between science and Christian faith basically sound.
But when Wittgenstein renounced the metaphor of language-as-a-picture for the new one of language-as-a-tool, Russell professed to find his subsequent philosophizing "completely unintelligible".
We are deeply hypocritical as a nation, professing the importance of family at every turn while ignoring and downgrading the necessary support systems for families to thrive".
In general, a caste is an endogamous hereditary group of families bearing a common name, often claiming a common descent, as a rule professing to follow the same hereditary calling, adhering to the same customs especially regarding purity, meals, and marriages and often further divided into smaller endogamous circles.
We as a nation profess to have little tolerance for harassment as behavior.
The development came as a man professing to be Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau released a video on YouTube claiming responsibility for the attack on the town of Baga in Borno State, which resulted in fatalities estimated to be anywhere between 150 to 2,000.
