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say it: pruh-FES-ing
professing is a noun meaning "an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion". It carries one recorded sense.
an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion
“a profession of disagreement”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for professing come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.