different between purport vs significance

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)

1. To convey, imply, or profess (often falsely or inaccurately).
2. (construed with to) To intend.

Translations

Noun

purport (plural purports)

1. 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.

2. (obsolete) disguise; covering

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References

• “purport”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• prorupt

English

Etymology

From Old French significance, from Latin significantia.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /s???n?f?k?ns/

Noun

significance (countable and uncountable, plural significances)

1. The extent to which something matters; importance

   As a juror your opinion is of great significance for the outcome of the trial.
2. Meaning.

   the significance of a gesture

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See also

• Significance level (statistics).
• Statistical significance.