Professed Definition

Professed Sentence Examples

• Eckhart appears, however, to have made a conditional recantation - that is, he professed to disavow whatever in his writings could be shown to be erroneous.

• By this almost exclusively he is known to others than professed students.

• From that time certainly equity, like common law, has professed to take its principles wholly from recorded decisions and statute law.

• For a long time it was thought that precedents could have no place in equity, inasmuch as it professed in each case to do that which was just; and we find this view maintained by common lawyers after it had been abandoned by the professors of equity themselves.

• Protestantism was professed by a large number of the inhabitants; and in many respects their characteristics identified them rather with the race to the east than that to the west of the Rhine.