PROFESSION

PROFESSION. → False Pr 20:6; Ho 8:2 → Of faith in Jesus
* See CONFESSION

→ See TESTIMONY, RELIGIOUS

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profession. Profession, n. a declaration, opinion, vocation

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Pro‐fes″sion (?), n. [[F., fr. L. professio. See Profess, v.]] 1. 1. The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith.
A solemn vow, promise, and profession. Bk. of Com. Prayer. 2. 2. That which one professed; a declaration; an avowal; a claim; as, his professions are insincere.
The Indians quickly perceive the coincidence or the contradiction between professions and conduct. J. Morse. 3. 3. That of which one professed knowledge; the occupation, if not mechanical, agricultural, or the like, to which one devotes one's self; the business which one professes to understand, and to follow for subsistence; calling; vocation; employment; as, the profession of arms; the profession of a clergyman, lawyer, or physician; the profession of lecturer on chemistry.
Hi tried five or six professions in turn. Macaulay. ☞ The three professions, or learned professions, are, especially, theology, law, and medicine. 4. 4. The collective body of persons engaged in a calling; as, the profession distrust him.
5. 5. (Eccl. Law.) The act of entering, or becoming a member of, a religious order.