claim vs profess

claim

verb
  • To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim. 

  • To cause the loss of, usually by violent means. 

  • To demand ownership of. 

  • To demand ownership or right to use for land. 

  • To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true. 

  • To demand compensation or damages through the courts. 

noun
  • The right or ground of demanding. 

  • The thing claimed. 

  • A demand of ownership for previously unowned land. 

  • A demand of ownership made for something. 

  • A new statement of something one believes to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified or without valid evidence provided. 

  • A legal demand for compensation or damages. 

profess

verb
  • To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity. 

  • To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order. 

  • To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.). 

  • To work as a professor of; to teach. 

  • To declare oneself (to be something). 

  • To declare; to assert, affirm. 

How often have the words claim and profess occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )