purport

purport

purport (third-person singular simple present purports, present participle purporting, simple past and past participle purported)

1. To convey, imply, or profess outwardly, often falsely.

   He purports himself to be an international man of affairs.

2. To intend.

   He purported to become an international man of affairs.

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.

intenzione

pretendere

proposito

scopo

senso

significare

significato

valore

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