7 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
verb practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about
verb confess one's faith in, or allegiance to
verb admit (to a wrongdoing)
originFrom Old French professer, and its source, the participle stem of Latin profitērī, from pro- + fatērī (“to confess, acknowledge”).
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