purport
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[edit] Etymology
From Anglo-Norman, from purporter (“contain”), from Old French pur-, from Latin pro (“forth”) + Old French porter (“carry”), from Latin portō (“carry”).
[edit] Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔː(r)t
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[edit] Verb
purport (third-person singular simple present purports, present participle purporting, simple past and past participle purported)
- To convey, imply, or profess outwardly, often falsely.
- He purports himself to be an international man of affairs.
- To intend.
- He purported to become an international man of affairs.
[edit] Translations
to convey
to intend
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[edit] Pronunciation 2
- (UK) IPA: /ˈpɜːpɔːt/ or /ˈpɜːpət/, SAMPA: /"p3:pO:t/ or /"p3:p@t/
- (US) IPA: /ˈpɚpɔɹt/, SAMPA: /"p@`pOr\t/
[edit] Noun
purport (plural purports)
- import, intention or purpose
- 1748, David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- My practice, you say, refutes my doubts. But you mistake the purport of my question.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 4, chapter I, Aristocracies
- Sorrowful, phantasmal as this same Double Aristocracy of Teachers and Governors now looks, it is worth all men’s while to know that the purport of it is, and remains, noble and most real.
- 1748, David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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import
