Purport

Definition: Purport

Purport

Noun

1. The intended meaning of a communication.

2. General meaning or tenor: "caught the drift of the conversation".

Verb

1. Have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming; "The letter purports to express people's opinion".

2. Propose or intend; "I aim to arrive at noon".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "purport" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Purport

Imagination

Verb: mean, signify, express; import, purport; convey, imply, breathe, indicate, bespeak, bear a sense; tell of, speak of; touch on; point to, allude to; drive at; involve; (latency); declare; (affirm).

Noun: meaning; signification, significance; sense, expression; import, purport; force; drift, tenor, spirit, bearing, coloring; scope.

Crosswords: Purport

Books

• Brahmasutra: The Philosophy of God-Realisation; Text with Word-To-Word Translation, Full Purport and Exhaustive Notes (reference)

• Four Centuries of Special Geography: An Annotated Guide to Books That Purport to Describe All the Countries in the World Published in English Before (reference)

• Goethe's Faust: Its Genesis and Purport (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The Secretary of State, being a person holding an office under the authority of the United States, is precisely within the letter of the description; and if this court is not authorized to issue a writ of mandamus to such an officer, it must be because the law is unconstitutional, and therefore incapable of conferring the authority, and assigning the duties which its words purport to confer and assign. (reference)

Concerning the observations relating to the free zones of Haute-Savoie and the Gex district, the French Government have the honour to observe that the provisions of the last paragraph of Article 435 are so clear that their purport cannot be misapprehended, especially where it implies that no other Power but France and Switzerland will in future be interested in that question. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I certainly have been misunderstanding you, if you feel in doubt as to the purport of your answer

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

Kenya

Although many traditional indigenous religions include or accommodate belief in the efficacy of witchcraft, they generally approve of harmful witchcraft only for defensive or retaliatory purposes and purport to offer protection against it. Muslim leaders continued to charge that the Government is hostile toward Muslims. (references)

Economic History

Vietnam

Vietnam also applies foreign exchange balancing requirements on selected investment projects, especially those in ventures that purport to aim for export rather than domestic markets. (references)

Georgia

As a leftover from the Soviet period, several ministries purport to have a distribution function, but their efficiency and reliability are questionable. (references)

Minorities

Cote d'Ivoire

Although the purported practice of black magic or witchcraft continues to be feared widely, it generally is discouraged by traditional indigenous religions, aspects of which commonly purport to offer protection from witchcraft. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

qëllim (aim, ambition, aspiration, cause, design, designation, end, goal, idea, intent, intention, Mark, mission, notion, object, objective, point, purpose, scope, target, term, thought, view), kuptim (comprehension, conception, construction, drift, hang, import, meaning, perception, point, realization, sense, significance, signification, stress, understanding), domethënie (connotation, drift, import, importance, meaning, sense, significance). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مغزى (import, meaning, moral, moral of a fable, sense, significance, signification, tenor), ‏معنى (concept, import, meaning, sense, significance), ‏مضمون (content, ensured, guaranteed, import, meaning, registered, secured, signification, tenor, warranted), ‏وهم (bubble, delusion, fancy, idol, illusion, illusory, imagination, phantom, prestige, vagary, vapor, vapour), ‏زبدة الكلام, ‏دعا (allege, beckon, bid, call, claim, contend, enter a plea, feign, fetch, invite, name, plead, profess, recall, set up, summon, term, warn). (various references)

Bulgarian 

цел (aim, ambition, consummation, designation, destination, effect, end, goal, intent, intention, mission, object, objective, point, purpose, scope, target, turn), говоря за (speak, speak of, talk about, talk of), означавам (amount, bespeak, betoken, connotate, denote, imply, import, indicate, intend, involve, mean, represent, signify, spell, typify), общ смисъл (tenor), знача (denote, imply, intend, involve, mean, signify, sound, stand for), загатвам за (connotate, connote, indicate, prelude, shadow), претендирам (claim, pretend, profess), имам претенции да съм. (various references)

Chinese 

恉 , 旨 (aim, imperial decree, purpose), 声称 (Claimed, Claiming, Purported, Purporting). (various references)

Czech

znamenat (add up to, betoken, connotate, connote, correspond, count, denote, designate, entail, mean, signify, spell), význam (denotement, import, importance, meaning, moment, sense, significance, value), smysl (appreciation, effect, import, meaning, purpose, reason, tenor), obsah (area, content, contents, resume, sum, table of contents, volume), mít smysl (make sense). (various references)

French

portée (purview), teneur, signification, se prétendre, se faire passer pour. (various references)

German

behaupten (affirm, allege, argue, assert, assure, aver, claim, contend, declare, defend, maintain, make out, predicate, pretend, pronounce, state, to affirm, to argue, to assent, to claim, to claim kindred with someone, to suggest). (various references)

Greek 

σκοπόσ (aim, animus, cause, design, effect, end, intension, intent, object, objective, purpose, purview, sake, scope, sentinel, sentry, tenor, view), σκοπεύω (aim, drive at, intend, intend to, mean, purpose, train on), σημασία (acceptation, account, comprehension, consequence, denotation, import, importance, magnitude, meaning, purview, significance, significancy, signification), σημαίνω (betoken, connote, denote, imply, mark, matter, mean, signify, spell), παριστάνω (affect, come, depict, enact, impersonate, pass off as, pass oneself off as, personate, play, represent), εννοώ (comprehend, conceive, drive at, mean, realize, understand). (various references)

Hebrew 

משמעות (connotation, implication, meaning, sense, significance, signification), ל�"תכון (aim, get at, have in mind, intend, mean, sense, stand for, will), כו� �" (design, intent, intention, meaning, purpose, significance, spirit). (various references)

Hungarian

tartalom (amount, capacity, content, intension, matter, plot, subject-matter, substance), jelentés (application, application report, connotation, denotation, despatch, dispatch, import, meaning, memorandum, report, sense, significance), értelem (apprehension, bearing, comprehension, connotation, conscience, head, import, intellect, intelligence, meaning, mind, rationale, reason, senses, significance, wit), tárgy (chose, matter, object, referent, subject, subject-matter, theme, thing, topic), magva vminek (juice of sg, kernel of sg, pith), lényege vminek (body, burden, gist, guts, prime mover, quintessence), horderő (effective range, import, pregnancy). (various references)

Italian

pretendere (claim, exact, expect, pretend, require, to claim), significato (acceptation, drift, import, importance, meaning, sense, significance, signification), significare (be, imply, intend, matter, mean, signify, spell), senso (direction, humor, humour, meaning, point, sense). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

旨 (instructions, principle, thinking, will). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

むね (breast, chest, instructions, principle, ridge, thinking, will). (various references)

Manx

lhieggey er, kiarail (circumspection, cogitate, cogitation, design, destine, determine, intend, intention, prepare; care, provide, provision, purpose, purvey, resolution, resolve, vigilance). (various references)

Pig Latin

urportpay.(various references)

Portuguese

passar por (come by, go through, live through, run by, run through, suffer, travel, undergo), parecer (appear, appear to be, feedback, mind, notion, seem, show, sight, sound), teor (import, lyric, percentage, tenor, text), substância (body, essence, gist, material, matter, metals, stuff, substance), simular (affect, assume, camouflage, counterfeit, feign, feint, make believe, palter, play-act, pretend, put on, sham, simulate), significar (add up to, amount, denote, imply, import, intend, matter, mean, signify, spell, stand for), significado (account, amount, drift, effect, hang, import, meaning, sense, significance, signification, tenor), sentido (direction, eye, feeling, hang, hearty, import, meaning, sense, signification, tenor, way), objetivo (aim, business, cockshot, drift, end, full stop, function, goal, intent, intention, object, objective, outer, point, purpose, sake, shot, target, terminus, use), intenção (aim, contemplation, counsel, intension, intent, intention, meaning, mind, objective, plan, purpose, purview, resolution, why), implicar (carry, connotate, connote, draw in, entangle, implicate, imply, import, infer, involve, predicate, presuppose, spell, suggest), expressar (express, phrase, put, tell), dar a entender (hint, imply, insinuate, intimate), conteúdo (contents, inside, lining, tenor). (various references)

Romanian

pretinde (allege, assert, challenge, charge, claim, command, contend, exact, insist, maintain, make oneself out, make out, pretend, require), sens (acceptance, acceptation, amount, bearing, direction, drift, hang, importance, logic, meaning, reason, sense, signification, traffic, use, value, way), intenţie (aim, contemplation, design, effect, meaning, mind, notion, order, purpose, thought, turn, will), explicaţie (account, cause, construction, exegesis, explanation, gloss, Rede), afirma (affirm, allege, assert, aver, avouch, claim, declare, hold, maintain, predicate, remark, say, speak to, state, submit, undertake), ţintã (aim, blaze, butt, clout, design, end, goal, hobnail, ideal, nail, object, objective, peg, pin, purpose, pursuit, tack, target, weltnail, whither). (various references)

Russian 

содержание (allowance, content, contents, effect, keeping, maintenance, separate maintenance, subject), смысл (import, meaning, semantics, sense), текст документа, означать содержание, значение (account, consequence, importance, meaning, meanings, sense, significance, signification, store, value). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

značenje (content, meaning, significance), tvrditi (allow, assert, asseverate, aver, avouch, claim, contend, submit, vouch), smisao (import, meaning, point, sense, signification, talent). (various references)

Spanish

significado (implyed, import, meaning, point, purposefulness, sense, significance, significancy, signification). (various references)

Swedish

mening (contention, drift, estimation, feeling, idea, import, intention, meaning, opinion, purpose, sense, sentence, tenor). (various references)

Turkish

meram, manâ (explanation, hang, import, meaning, sense, signification), ifade etmek (amount, be enunciative of, breathe, conceive, connote, couch, denote, describe, emit, enounce, express, figure, frame, give voice to, import, mean, reflect, represent, sign, signify, state, utter, voice, word), iddia etmek (affirm, allege, argue, argue for smth., assert, asseverate, attest, aver, claim, contend, declare oneself, enunciate, press home, profess, protest, put forth, put forward), demek istemek (connote, drive at, get at, mean), belirtmek (define, deliver oneself, denote, embody, emit, enumerate, evidence, exude, feature, import, indicate, manifest, point out, predicate, remark, represent, show, sign, signify, specify, state, ventilate), belirtilmek istenen anlam, anlamına gelmek (add up, add up to, amount, be, connote, imply, infer, mean, read, signify, spell, stand for), anlam (acceptation, construction, content, denotation, effect, explanation, hang, import, inference, meaning, point, purview, sense, significance, significancy, signification, sound, strain, tenor). (various references)

Ukrainian

смисл (sense, sound), сенс, означати (bespeak, betoken, connotate, connote, denote, imply, import, indicate, infer, mean, note), мета (aim, ambition, design, effect, goal, intention, object, objective, point, purpose, use), значення (account, bearing, consequence, знаЧеннЯ [n], import, intent, meaning, sense, significance, significancy, signification, sound, value, weight), претендувати (challenge, pretend, put in). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nội dung, mục đích (design, errand, goal, mark, purpose, sake, scope). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "purport": purported, purportedly, purporting, purports. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Purport" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Durfort, europoort, Kurort, perport, preport, puport, pupport, Pupwrf, purpora, purportive, pur-pur, pur-pyr, surport. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: port, pour, pout, prop, purr, roup, rout, torr, tour, trop.

-4 letters: opt, ort, our, out, pop, pot, pro, pup, pur, put, rot, rut, top, tor, tup, upo.

-5 letters: op, or, to, up, ut.

+1 letter: purports.

+2 letters: potpourri, purported, superport, supporter, turboprop.

+3 letters: potpourris, purporting, rapporteur, superports, supporters, turboprops.

+4 letters: perpetuator, precomputer, purportedly, rapporteurs, superprofit.

+5 letters: perpetuators, precomputers, preposterous, superpatriot, superprofits.