Sentence examples for were professed from inspiring English sources
verb
To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order. (Chiefly in passive.)
Riddhi Patel, iSuppli's director of television services, said 83 percent of survey respondents who bought 3-D TVs were professed early adopters — people who like to own the latest technology — and half of them had annual household incomes of $100,000 or more.
Sure, some of our Founding Fathers were professed Christians.
Even BJP partisans were professing to expect 60.
Yes, actual humans were professing to feel badly that the poor, disrespected Masters would be sullied by Tiger Woods's return.
NYMag reported Friday that the talking speakers were "professing their love for each other".
In interviews, he's professed his love for coloring, as in books.
I was at a John McDonnell rally in Newcastle last weekend, and the word "democracy" kept being professed as the crowds cheered.
Sister Mary was professed as a Sister of Mercy in 1958 and taught at various schools in Brooklyn.
As Professor Hamermesh puts it, "economists treat replication the way teenagers treat chastity – as an ideal to be professed but not to be practiced".
Their clothing is regulated both in countries where Islam is a minority religion, and in those where it is professed by the majority.
Roman Catholicism is professed by the overwhelming majority of the population, and the cardinal archbishop of Salvador is also the primate of Brazil.
