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purport
English
Etymology
From Middle English purporten, from Anglo-Norman purporter and Old French porporter (“convey, contain, carry”), from pur-, from Latin pro (“forth”) + Old French porter (“carry”), from Latin port? (“carry”).
Pronunciation
- (verb, UK) IPA(key): /p??p??t/
- (verb, US) IPA(key): /p??p??t/
- (noun, UK) IPA(key): /?p??p??t/, /?p??p?t/
- (noun, US) IPA(key): /?p?p??t/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t
Verb
purport (third-person singular simple present purports, present participle purporting, simple past and past participle purported)
- To convey, imply, or profess (often falsely or inaccurately).
- (construed with to) To intend.
Translations
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.
- 1939, Ernest Vincent Wright, Gadsby
- A child’s brain starts functioning at birth; and has, amongst its many infant convolutions, thousands of dormant atoms, into which God has put a mystic possibility for noticing an adult’s act, and figuring out its purport.
- 1748, David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- (obsolete) disguise; covering
Translations
References
- “purport”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Anagrams
- prorupt
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purported
English
Etymology
purport +? -ed
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /p???p??.t?d/, /p???po??.t?d/
Adjective
purported
- Supposed, or assumed to be.
- Normally assumed to be.
- Said by some people to be real or true or to have happened, although this may not be so
Translations
Verb
purported
- simple past tense and past participle of purport
Anagrams
- prorupted
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