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Definition of Purport
1. Verb. Have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming. "They purport to move "; "The letter purports to express people's opinion"
2. Noun. The intended meaning of a communication.
Generic synonyms: Import, Meaning, Significance, Signification
Derivative terms: Intend
3. Verb. Propose or intend. "I aim to arrive at noon"
Generic synonyms: Intend, Mean, Think
Derivative terms: Aim, Aim, Purpose, Purpose
4. Noun. The pervading meaning or tenor. "Caught the general drift of the conversation"
Definition of Purport
1. n. Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor.
2. v. t. To intend to show; to intend; to mean; to signify; to import; -- often with an object clause or infinitive.
Definition of Purport
1. Verb. To convey, imply, or profess outwardly, often falsely. ¹
2. Verb. To intend. ¹
3. Noun. import, intention or purpose ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Purport
1. to profess or claim [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purport
Literary usage of Purport
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"... if they purport to have been made by, or by the authority of, the Board of
Trade, and to be signed by some officer appointed for that purpose by the ..."
2. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin (1896)
"six concluding lines I remember, though I have forgotten the two first of the
stanza; but the purport of them was that his censures proceeded from good will ..."
3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1903)
"... the government from any loss occa,- g The legal purport of such a bond is to
in- * sioned by any »dereliction of the obligor. ..."
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