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Purport   /pˈərpˌɔrt/  /pərpˈɔrt/   Listen
verb
Purport  v. t.  (past & past part. purported; pres. part. purporting)  To intend to show; to intend; to mean; to signify; to import; often with an object clause or infinitive. "They in most grave and solemn wise unfolded Matter which little purported."


noun
Purport  n.  
1.
Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor. "The whole scope and purport of that dialogue. Norris. With a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell."
2.
Disguise; covering. (Obs.) "For she her sex under that strange purport Did use to hide."





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"Purport" Quotes from Famous Books



... with the rest. He did not comprehend what was said, as the speech was in the Waco tongue, and he understood it not. He guessed that it related to the fallen chief and his enemies, but its exact purport ...
— The White Chief - A Legend of Northern Mexico • Mayne Reid
... of wonder that she could have lived through them at all—the whole fabric of reasons, arguments, excuses, that she had built up, for him and herself, gradually crumbled away. Had she altogether misapprehended the purport of his promised letter? Was it just some ordinary note, about her boys and their studies perhaps, which, after all, he had not thought it worthwhile to write? Yet surely it was worth while, if only to send a kindly and courteous ...
— The Laurel Bush • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
... our Royal Edict—may God exalt and bless its purport and elevate the same to the high heavens, as he does the sun and moon!—that it is our command, that all Jews residing within our dominions, be the condition in which the Almighty God has placed them whatever it may, shall be ...
— Notes on the Diplomatic History of the Jewish Question • Lucien Wolf
... the one or the other," answered Phil—who alone fully understood the purport of the cacique's speech, and therefore took it upon himself to reply—"we choose to become the slaves of these women who have intervened to save us from death. And we will do our best to fill the places of those whom ...
— Two Gallant Sons of Devon - A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess • Harry Collingwood
... whole measure of the Seisachtheia, indeed, though the poems of Solon were open to every one, ancient authors gave different statements both of its purport and of its extent. Most of them construed it as having cancelled indiscriminately all money contracts; while Androtion and others thought that it did nothing more than lower the rate of interest and depreciate ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1 • Various


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