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comparative more professed, superlative most professed
Openly declared or acknowledged. examples
Professing to be qualified. quotations examples
[…] flowers, which, if not identical with our violets, sufficiently correspond to them for the purposes of readers who are not professed botanists.
1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 8, page 128
Admitted to a religious order. quotations examples
The rule of the Perpetual Adoration is so strict that it horrifies; novices hold back, and the order is not recruited. In 1845 a few lay sisters were still found here and there, but no professed nuns.
1887, chapter XI, in Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, transl., Les Misérables, volume II, Little, Brown, and Company, translation of original by Victor Hugo
simple past and past participle of profess examples