Purport

[pə'pɔːt] or ['pɝpɔt]

Definition

(verb.) have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming; 'The letter purports to express people's opinion'.

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Definition

(n.) Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor.

(n.) Disguise; covering.

(n.) To intend to show; to intend; to mean; to signify; to import; -- often with an object clause or infinitive.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Design, meaning, signification, import, significance, drift, tenor, scope, sense, tendency, gist, intent, spirit.

v. a. Intend, mean, signify, import.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Tendency, meaning, import, bearing, signification, drift, tenor, current,intent, spirit

ANT:Statement, assertion, declaration, proposition, announcement

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Definition

n. design: meaning: signification.—v.t. (also Purport′) to give out as its meaning: to convey to the mind: to seem to mean—often with an infinitive clause as its object.—adj. Pur′portless.

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