professed

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Professed belief in God may be on the decline, but we are surrounded by increasingly powerful and even godlike machines.

From Slate • Oct. 28, 2023

Professed Knights, from which the Grand Masters are chosen, take vows of poverty and chastity as well as obedience to the pope.

From Reuters • May 3, 2023

Professed purpose of the peasant action was to protest the "dictatorial and bureaucratic system," to inaugurate a genuine democracy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Professed aim of last week's revolt was a new provisional government, which would call a constituent assembly to meet before the general election which Provisional President de Cespedes had promised to hold next February.

From Time Magazine Archive

Professed philanthropists have gone far; but no originally good man, I presume, ever went quite so far as this.

From The Blithedale Romance by Hawthorne, Nathaniel