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Purport   /pˈərpˌɔrt/  /pərpˈɔrt/   Listen
verb
Purport  v. t.  (past & past part. purported; pres. part. purporting)  To intend to show; to intend; to mean; to signify; to import; often with an object clause or infinitive. "They in most grave and solemn wise unfolded Matter which little purported."


noun
Purport  n.  
1.
Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor. "The whole scope and purport of that dialogue. Norris. With a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell."
2.
Disguise; covering. (Obs.) "For she her sex under that strange purport Did use to hide."





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"Purport" Quotes from Famous Books



... the criticism [of my work offered by Hawthorne], whether just or unjust, describes with wonderful accuracy the purport that I have ever had in view in my writing. I have always desired to 'hew out some lump of the earth', and to make men and women walk upon it just as they do walk here among us,—with not more of excellence, nor with exaggerated baseness,—so that my readers might recognise human beings like ...
— Nina Balatka • Anthony Trollope
... sword). Why, at the hour when spirits walks the earth, Meet the three Cantons of the mountains here, Upon the lake's inhospitable shore? What may the purport be of this new league We here contract ...
— Wilhelm Tell - Title: William Tell • Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
... are passions, emotions, spiritual speculations. So the Twice-told Tales that seem at first but the pleasant fancies of a mild recluse, gradually hold the mind with a Lamia-like fascination; and the author says truly of them, in the Preface of 1851, "Even in what purport to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory not always so warmly dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood as to be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver." There are sunny gleams upon the pages, but a strange, melancholy chill pervades the ...
— Literary and Social Essays • George William Curtis
... with my two best friends, Mrs. Richman and Mrs. Sumner. I ask you not to palliate my faults,—that cannot be done,—but to obtain, if possible, their forgiveness. I cannot write all my full mind suggests on this subject. You know the purport, and can better express it ...
— The Coquette - The History of Eliza Wharton • Hannah Webster Foster
... yet how dear the transient joys of time, Their purport not the Pearl of our desire. Loved are these confines as immortal clime, And dear the hearth-flame as the altar fire; When fate accomplished wins her utmost bourne, And fulness ousts for aye fair images, Will doting mem'ry from their funeral pyre Rise phoenix-wise and earth-sick spirits ...
— Atma - A Romance • Caroline Augusta Frazer


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