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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



... understanding of the question asked at him. This must be heard and reiterated by the mind before its purport can be perceived, and all this before he can commence the proper mental operation upon the original sentence from which his answer is to be selected. He has then to review the words of the original ...
— A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education • James Gall
... country in the world that has not printed several books on this new movement, and, although the word itself cannot be found in our dictionaries, hardly anyone who reads can have escaped gaining some acquaintance with its purport. The other question, however, has concerned few, and almost no one has traced the origin of syndicalism to that militant group of anarchists whom the French Government had endeavored to annihilate. After the series of tragedies which ended with the ...
— Violence and the Labor Movement • Robert Hunter
... thought fit to send news of his discovery to Europe. It seemed little likely to be anticipated; yet a few minutes before his despatch was handed to the Secretary of the Paris Academy of Sciences, a communication similar in purport had been received from Sir Norman Lockyer. There is no need to discuss the narrow and wearisome question of priority; each of the competitors deserves, and has obtained, full credit for his invention. With noteworthy and confident prescience, Lockyer, in 1866, ...
— A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Fourth Edition • Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
... is something ominous in the air. Noted you not the questioning at the gate and its purport? They asked me if I favoured Treves, or Cologne, or Mayence, but none inquired if I stood loyal to the Emperor, yet I was entering his capital ...
— The Strong Arm • Robert Barr
... not sure if I rightly place or construe the phrase in the above inscription, "cujus sancte memorie bene acte;" but, in main purport, the legend runs thus: "This Galileo of the Galilei was, in his times, the head of philosophy and medicine; who also in the highest magistracy loved the republic marvellously; whose son, blessed in inheritance of his holy memory and well-passed and pious ...
— Mornings in Florence • John Ruskin


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