Verb:

खुले आम दावा करना, आस्था दिखलाना, दावे के साथ कहना, खुले आम स्वीकर करना, ढोंग करना,

profess's Usage Examples:

Since then, says their regretful pupil, " less time and less care have been bestowed on grammar, and persons who profess all arts, liberal and mechanical, are ignorant of the primary art, without which a man proceeds in vain to the rest.

In the islands of Bali and Lombok the people still profess a form of Hinduism, and Hindu remains are to be found in many other parts of the archipelago, though their traces do not extend to the peninsula.

They profess Christianity, and speak a language closely resembling that of the Sagai Tatars.

The Kalmucks and other Mongolic tribes are Lamaists (20,300), and some of the Kurds profess the peculiar tenets of the Yezids.

"I find it fascinating that you and Wynn profess to care yet aren't willing to deal," Darkyn mused.

Many of the natives are well educated, profess Christianity and dress in European fashion.

If he profess, however, to create a tenancy for a period longer than that to which his own interest extends, he does not thereby give to his tenant an interest available against the reversioner or remainder man.

Modern equity, it need hardly be said, does not profess to soften the rigour of the law, or to correct the errors into which it falls by reason of its generality.

But be this as it may, he had no sooner adopted his new creed than he resolved to profess it; " a momentary glow of enthusiasm " had raised him above all temporal considerations, and accordingly, on June 8, 1753, he records that having " privately abjured the heresies" of his childhood before a Catholic priest of the name of Baker, a Jesuit, in London, he announced the same to his father in an elaborate controversial epistle which his spiritual adviser much approved, and which he himself afterwards described to Lord Sheffield as having been " written with all the pomp, the dignity, and self-satisfaction of a martyr."

I don't profess to be a believer, but I'd like to think I have an open mind.

Synonyms:

claim,

Antonyms:

resist, disclaim,