professedadjective [ before noun ]
uk/prəˈfest/us/prəˈfest/A professed belief is one that someone has made known:
She is a professed monarchist.
used to refer to a belief or feeling that someone says they have or feel, but is probably not sincere:
His professed love of women seems a little odd when you consider how he treats them.
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Religious beliefs & atheistic beliefs
- agnostic
- animism
- anticlerical
- ascetic
- atheist
- credo
- creed
- cult
- doctrine
- faith can move mountains idiom
- fetish
- heresy
- monotheism
- mysticism
- orthodoxy
- pagan
- religiously
- secular humanism
- theism
- theology
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