How To Use Professing In A Sentence
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Professing not to know that his nubile young companion on one particularly debauched evening was a call girl is even worse than knowing, and then trying to brazen your way out of it.
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It genders the antinomianism which is going to cause a large part of professing Christendom as well as the world, to take the mark of the Beast when he appears.
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The Jews stood forth distinct from all other nations, professing allegiance to God.
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Christian contemporaries, and that their knowledge was mainly confined to mere commercial notation, an anonymous writer has shown how the modifications of form could be naturally made, in vol.ii. of the _Bath and Bristol Magazine_, pp. 393-412.; the motto being _valent quanti valet_, as well as the title professing it to be wholly "conjectural.
Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850
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And they said unto him, We can -- Here we see them owning their mother's petition for them as their own; and doubtless they were perfectly sincere in professing their willingness to follow their
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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We do not read in history of any act of cruelty practiced towards a male bewitcher; though we have authentic records to prove, that many a weak and defenceless woman has been tortured, and even murdered by a people professing Christianity, merely because a pampered priest, or a superstitious idiot, sanctioned such oppression.
Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination
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_Andy-Johnsonese_ into constitutional phrase, to give these versions some show of logical arrangement, and to carry out, as best they may, their own objects, while professing boundless devotion to his.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866
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In the Antilles, the masters, from father to son, have been professing the Christian religion ever since slavery was established there.
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How has pagan idolatry, the very same sort of idolatry that Paul encountered in Ephesus, corrupted much of the Christian-professing world?
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After professing enthusiastic support for reform of the present scorned system, ministers have gone suspiciously quiet.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is whether you can get a great law teaching job these days professing no interest whatsoever in doctrinal elaboration, doctrinal reform, doctrinal justification or doctrinal history.
Balkinization
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Today, the Reformed Evangelische Kirche, while professing to adhere to The Helvetic Confession, has departed completely from the historic Reformed faith and biblical ethics.
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The old man carefully held the lantern in the best position, while Lecoq, on his knees, studied each footprint with the attention of a chiromancer professing to read the future in the hand of a rich client.
Monsieur Lecoq
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The early Reformers probably realized this but they felt the necessity of building up some sort of a Church which could bind together its members into a corporate body professing unity of belief and worship, and which, in contrast with the pope's Church, which they called apostate, could be called the true Church of God.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
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He also wrote her long letters professing his undying love.
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In virtue whereof he was now mounted on the arm of an easy-chair, with a long _chibouque_, which became the gravity of an incipient bachelor better than a cigar, and took upon himself to give Thornhill (who was really a clever fellow, and professing to be reading for a first) some advice as to his conducting himself when his examination should arrive.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843
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So if you have a treaty professing to require the recognition of freedom of expression, and the legislature abridges this by, say, banning denial of the holocaust, the court is bound to apply the law, rather than resolve these issues for the benefit of people wondering what future courts will do.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Canadian University Restricting Graphic Posters That Compare Abortion to Genocide
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Bushee from the University of Colorado, sent a letter to the committee demanding a retraction of his name and professing his strong support of the war from the beginning.
Savage Peace
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After professing enthusiastic support for reform of the present scorned system, ministers have gone suspiciously quiet.
Times, Sunday Times
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Today, many Creoles are nonpracticing Catholics with some agnostics, some atheists, and a very few professing a non-Catholic faith.
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They likewise reject as sectarian, That the community of the faithful or professing Christians, in a private station hath any scriptural warrant for public teaching, or judicative determination in the church; both which opinions are not only expressly contrary to scripture, Acts xv, throughout, and xvi, 4; I Cor. v, 4; 1 Tim: v, 17;
Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive
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Here, I. Christ warns his disciples to take heed of hypocrisy, and of cowardice in professing Christianity and preaching the gospel, ver.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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Here, they're all playing nicely at moguldom and at mentoring, professing a commitment to nurturing talent and using the term "support system" in a way that splits the difference between the jargon of self-help and the language of networking.
Slate Magazine
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This mass migration has brought peoples professing various religions to live in areas where those religions have not been known widely.
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He steadfastly turns down requests to do interviews in English, professing not to be able to communicate well enough.
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Acknowledging that professing a liking for ska can be a rock band's death wish, O'Dell stands by their tastes.
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He himself spoke in the other House for the address (though professing incertainty about the treaties themselves), against my Lord
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
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A Joliet woman accused with three others of the brutal slaying of a Channahon man found "hogtied" with his hands and feet bound has been mailing poems and rap lyrics from behind bars, professing her innocence and complaining about the jail's food and bedding.
Chicagotribune.com -
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The section which is here placed under this heading is obviously different from any collection which could be made of modern poems, professing to deal with Nature and not imitated from the Greek.
Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
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It is not a matter of belonging to a religion or professing one's faith, it is a matter of orientation in life and participation in its mysteries.
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This is a most vexing thing, when persons professing the Christian name indulge themselves in a liberty to walk at random; are impatient of restraints; affect libertinism; have not refrained their feet but have loved to wander: therefore the Lord doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
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Knowing that it is less surprising to find strongly pluralistic beliefs in a title professing to draw it's insights from the Christian tradition.
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Acknowledging that professing a liking for ska can be a rock band's death wish, O'Dell stands by their tastes.
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I put in the time to watch them struggle with their emotion (I use the term struggle loosely) only to have some anti-climatic kiss in the back of a flower shop and a lame professing of love.
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What a prospect for her, then, with our present race of young men! their frivolous fickleness nauseates whatever they can reach; they have a weak shame of asserting, or even listening to what is right, and a shallow pride in professing what is wrong.
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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He also wrote her long letters professing his undying love.
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Certaine of the Tartarres, professing the name of Christe, yet farre from his righteousnes: when their parentes waxe aged, to haste their death, crame them with gobins of fatte.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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He died as a tyrant should, surrounded by people professing their love and loyalty and all wishing him dead.
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Not only that, once done, people need to constantly be aware of what ideology, people are currently professing and adjust the label accordingly to avoid becoming out of date.
I the nationalist; you the terrorist!
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Lecoq, on his knees, studied each footprint with the attention of a chiromancer professing to read the future in the hand of a rich client.
Monsieur Lecoq
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Then, and only then, will the United States have any credibility in professing a desire for democracy in the Middle East. wiley Says:
Matthew Yglesias » Democracy Promotion Requires Peace Promotion
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Haytian Government, which, however, while still professing to maintain the ground taken against Mr. Van Bokkelen's right, terminated the controversy by setting him at liberty without explanation.
State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
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While professing unhappiness with what he called a handful of "mistakes," he held fast to his basic support of Bush's policies.
Suzanne Nossel: Letting Go of Joe
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At solemn profession, I placed my hands in those of my prioress, professing to live my vows usque ad mortem, until death.
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But more recently professing evangelical scholars have advocated revisionary versions of numerous doctrines. A revisionary doctrine of God has been advocated by proponents of "openness theology.
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For, as great wickedness before conversion keeps not true penitents from the benefits of God's grace, so neither should it keep professing ones from church-fellowship.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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In spite of being single and professing the vow of chastity as a nun, I sometimes feel this way.
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It was made by no professing poet, but by some obscure rhymer of the streets, written immediately after the exile of John Mitchel, the greatest disciple of Emmet in the last century.
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In the television show, Homer responds by ineptly professing his love for Marge, who later goes to him at the nuclear power plant where he works.
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Here, they're all playing nicely at moguldom and at mentoring, professing a commitment to nurturing talent and using the term "support system" in a way that splits the difference between the jargon of self-help and the language of networking.
Slate Magazine
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It was a Letter brought to town, and delivered to Skippon and Cromwell for presentation to the House, by three private troopers, professing to be "agents" or "agitators" or "adjutators" for some regiments in the Army.
The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649
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Foolish us with our medieval notions of professors professing away, surrounded by their students, all engaged in an effort to understand the world we live in and change it for the better.
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Then he stated that the beer was the best he had ever tasted, except in Bavaria, and in some parts of Spain, he added; and professing to be extremely "peckish," requested to know if there were any cold meat in the house whereof he could make a dinner.
Men's Wives
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So we have Marilyn Marks resigning from The Red Ant blog, the waspish Elizabeth Milias berating Aspen City Manager Steve Barwick, and the gnatty Andrew Kole professing his preference for blondes.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: The Loony Bin of Aspen Politics
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Had every professing pantheist in history been exposed to the idea of panentheism, perhaps each would immediately exclaim: “Yes, yes…I am that.”
Why I am Not a Pantheist (Nor a Panentheist): Metaphysics, Totalization, and the Cosmos By Jonathan Weidenbaum
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The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.
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She can smell them out at 100 paces - even if they appear initially to be bearing roses and professing undying love.
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Under the name blackroot, Gulver's root, and the probably erroneous botanical name (Leptandra alba), the author of a work professing to describe the Indian mode of treating diseases, entitled the "Cherokee Physician," recommends the plant as an efficient purge: "operating with mildness and certainty;" peculiarly adapted to typhoid and bilious fevers.
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
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Britain's Star Chamber limited the number of printers so as to stop "dyvers contentious and disorderlye persons professinge the arte or mystere of pryntings or selling of books.
Beijing's Crash Course in News Censorship
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Professing, then, that having missed our way we must needs hurry on to make up for lost time, I listened patiently to the minute and befogging directions given us for finding the St. Malo road and ordered my party to march.
Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
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(_d_) Another class hold the view which is termed cosmogonies than that of Moses, whether contained in the sacred books of religions that have long existed, or professing to be based on modern scientific discovery, raise difficulties that are insuperable.
Exposition of the Apostles Creed
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They talked far more to the media, sponsors and loved ones - professing eternal devotion - than to each other (clocking up 5000 minutes on the phone).
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Anyhow, Ross is onscreen now, professing his love for Rachel, although she's in another room.
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Such defeatism is akin to standing at the starting blocks of a race while loudly professing that you cannot win.
Think Progress » U.S. military reports 40 percent spike in Baghdad attacks.
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The argument is effectively advocating locking up priests, rabbis and imams for doing nothing more than professing their beliefs.
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After professing enthusiastic support for reform of the present scorned system, ministers have gone suspiciously quiet.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is precisely because it is a multi-religious country with substantial segments of the population professing various religions like Islam, Christianity, Sikhism and Buddhism.
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Professing Christianity, he had little compassion in his make - up.
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Rakshabandhan Rakshabandhan-a sacred tie of Love & Purity Symbolizing purity in thoughts, words & deeds This lays down certain proprieties -- of moralities To adorn the wrists of soul-soul as brothers Thus upholding the doctrine of universal fraternity Not to forget the filial concern shown by the sisters for brothers; Brothers safeguarding the honour of sisters dear Providing them a defensive Armour clear Professing their undying sincerity and loyalties
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