Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make a false profession of; make unfounded pretensions to.
- To make a false profession.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To make a false profession; to make pretensions to skill which is not possessed.
- transitive verb To make a false profession of.
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_ [44] Keep me back, O Lord, from them who misprofess arts of healing the soul, or of the body, by means not imprinted by thee in the church for the soul, or not in nature for the body.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel John Donne 1601
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