professed

adjective

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Pronunciation: /pɹəˈfɛst/

Openly declared or acknowledged.
“His professed religion was Catholicism.”
Professing to be qualified.
“She is a professed expert in mechanics.”
“[…] flowers, which, if not identical with our violets, sufficiently correspond to them for the purposes of readers who are not professed botanists.”
Admitted to a religious order.
“The rule of the Perpetual Adoration is so strict that it horrifies; novices hold back, and the order is not recruited. In 1845 a few lay sisters were still found here and there, but no professed nuns.”