purview

English

Etymology

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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English purveu (“proviso”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman purveuest (“it is provided”), or purveu que (“provided that”) (statutory language), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French porveu (“provided”), past participle of porveoir (“to provide”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin prōvideō (See provide). Influenced by view and its etymological antecedants.

Noun

purview (plural purviews)

1. (law) The enacting part of a statute.
2. (law) The scope of a statute.
3. Scope or range of interest or control.
   • 1788, James Madison, “The Right of the Convention to Frame such a Constitution”, in The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, page 255:

     Will it be said that the fundamental principles of the Confederation were not within the purview of the convention, and ought not to have been varied?

   • 2003, Nicholas Asher and Alex Lascarides, Logics of Conversation, page 7:

     Rhetorical relations have truth conditional effects that contribute to meaning but lie outside the purview of compositional semantics.

4. Range of understanding.

(Can we add an example for this sense?)

Related terms

• purvey

Translations

law: enacting part of a statute

• Turkish: kanunun hüküm kısmı
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law: scope of a statute

• Dutch: bereik (nl) n
• German: Geltungsbereich m
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• Turkish: amaç (tr)

scope or range of interest or control

• Czech: rozsah (cs) m (zájmu), zorné pole n, obzor (cs) m (vědění), oblast zájmu f
• Dutch: bereik (nl) n
• German: Einflussbereich (de) m, Zuständigkeitsbereich (de) m, Bereich (de) m, Reichweite (de) f, Zuständigkeit f
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• Russian: сфера интересов (sfera interesov)
• Turkish: görüş alanı

range of understanding

• Czech: rozsah porozumění m
• Dutch: bereik (nl) n
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• German: Bereich (de)
• Russian: компетенция (ru) f (kompetencija)