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CLAIMED |
Professed |
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DECLARED |
Professed |
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PRETENDED |
Professed |
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AVOWED |
Professed |
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SERVANT |
A professed lover or suitor; a gallant. |
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CREED |
Any summary of principles or opinions professed or
adhered to. |
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CICISBEO |
A professed admirer of a married woman; a dangler about
women. |
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KORAN |
The Scriptures of the Mohammedans, containing the professed
revelations to Mohammed; -- called also Alcoran. |
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PROFESSION |
That which one professed; a declaration; an avowal; a
claim; as, his professions are insincere. |
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PROVESSEL |
Openly declared, avowed, acknowledged, or claimed; as, a
professed foe; a professed tyrant; a professed Christian. |
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APOSTOLIC |
A member of one of certain ascetic sects which at
various times professed to imitate the practice of the apostles. |
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BACKSLIDE |
To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon
gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed. |
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MYSTIC |
One given to mysticism; one who holds mystical views,
interpretations, etc.; especially, in ecclesiastical history, one who
professed mysticism. See Mysticism. |
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OSTENSIBLE |
Shown; exhibited; declared; avowed; professed;
apparent; -- often used as opposed to real or actual; as, an ostensible
reason, motive, or aim. |
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SEEKER |
One of a small heterogeneous sect of the 17th century, in
Great Britain, who professed to be seeking the true church, ministry,
and sacraments. |
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APOSTATIZE |
To renounce totally a religious belief once
professed; to forsake one's church, the faith or principles once held,
or the party to which one has previously adhered. |
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APOSTASY |
An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a
total desertion of departure from one's faith, principles, or party;
esp., the renuncia... |
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BURGHER |
..., which
asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess
"the true religion professed within the realm"), the opposite pa... |
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PROFESSOR |
One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his
sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of
his belief in the Scr... |
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INSINCERITY |
...s; untrustworthiness; as, the
insincerity of a professed friend; the insincerity of professions of
regard. ... |
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HOROSCOPE |
...ens at
the moment of a person's birth, by which the astrologer professed to
foretell the events of the person's life; especially, the sign of th... |
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MYSTICISM |
The doctrine of the Mystics, who professed a pure,
sublime, and wholly disinterested devotion, and maintained that they
had direct intercourse ... |
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MORMON |
One of a sect in the United States, followers of Joseph
Smith, who professed to have found an addition to the Bible, engraved
on golden plates,... |
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ORANGEMAN |
One of a secret society, organized in the north of
Ireland in 1795, the professed objects of which are the defense of the
regning sovereign of ... |