The act of professing or claiming; open
declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions
of friendship; a profession of faith.
That which one professed; a declaration; an
avowal; a claim; as, his professions are insincere.
That of which one professed knowledge; the
occupation, if not mechanical, agricultural, or the like, to which one
devotes one's self; the business which one professes to understand,
and to follow for subsistence; calling; vocation; employment; as, the
profession of arms; the profession of a clergyman,
lawyer, or physician; the profession of lecturer on
chemistry.
The collective body of persons engaged in a
calling; as, the profession distrust him.
The act of entering, or
becoming a member of, a religious order.
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