professed

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: pro=fessed

CIDE DICTIONARY

professed, a. 

 Openly declared, avowed, acknowledged, or claimed; as, a professed foe; a professed tyrant; a professed Christian.  [1913 Webster]

The professed (R. C. Ch.) , a certain class among the Jesuits bound by a special vow. See the note under Jesuit.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

professed, adj.
1 self-acknowledged (a professed Christian).
2 alleged, ostensible.
3 claiming to be duly qualified.
4 (of a monk or nun) having taken the vows of a religious order.

Derivative

professedly adv. (in senses 1, 2).

THESAURUS

professed

accepted, acknowledged, admitted, affirmed, alleged, allowed, announced, apparent, approved, asserted, asseverated, attested, authenticated, averred, avouched, avowed, certified, claimed, conceded, confessed, confirmed, countersigned, declared, deposed, endorsed, enunciated, granted, hypocritical, in name only, manifestoed, notarized, ostensible, pledged, predicated, pretended, pretexted, pronounced, purported, ratified, received, recognized, sealed, self-styled, signed, so-called, specious, stamped, stated, supposed, sworn, sworn and affirmed, sworn to, underwritten, validated, vouched, vouched for, vowed, warranted, would-be