The word "professes" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the sense of declaring a belief or opinion, as in the sentence, "He professes to be an expert on the subject".
McGoverns script contained both of the virtues that Carlyle a former painter and decorator, and trade union official professes to look for: it was real, and it was socially relevant'.
Such localism as he professes has been forced on him by Europe's new wave of centrifugal politics.
Salome actually trembles as Alexander says hello, embraces her and professes delight at the T-shirt.
The manager, with whom Cerci professes to enjoy a father-son relationship, had set him firm goals for the season – which included getting into the Italy team.
The Treasury secretary also had a message for the Coalition government, which professes to be committed to lower taxation.
To Farage, it must seem like he is now a whisker away from fulfilling his long-held ambition of entering parliament – on his seventh attempt – finally joining the Westminster bunch he professes to despise.
New research by IPPR, a think-tank, shows Englishness rising in popularity, alongside a growing sense that the English are not fairly represented in the British Parliament.Not only British, but alsoPainfully for Mr Salmond, who professes to love the EU and loathe the Tory party, his strongest sympathisers in the House of Commons are English Conservative MPs on the Eurosceptic right.
Mr Bhalla is no xenophobe he spontaneously professes a weakness for Marks & Spencer underwear but says the reform is too controversial to be enacted.
Will the Serb Republic become an integral part of Bosnia, as the Dayton agreement requires and Mrs Plavsic, once an ardent nationalist, now professes to believe?
It professes to be pro-European.
He professes to be convinced that the harvest will reach 6m tonnes in the near future.
