Cryptic crossword clue
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The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word PROFESSED

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What does PROFESSED mean?

PROFESSED verb
  1. To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order. (Chiefly in passive.)
  2. To declare oneself (to be something).
  3. To declare; to assert, affirm.
  4. To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.
  5. To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).
  6. To work as a professor of; to teach.
  7. To claim to have knowledge or understanding of (a given area of interest, subject matter).
PROFESSED adjective
  1. Openly declared or acknowledged.
  2. Professing to be qualified.

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