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Webster 1913 Edition
Purport
1.
Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor.
The whole scope and
With a look so piteous in
As if he had been loosed out of hell.
purport
of that dialogue. Norris
.With a look so piteous in
purport
As if he had been loosed out of hell.
Shakespeare
2.
Disguise; covering.
[Obs.]
For she her sex under that strange
Did use to hide.
purport
Did use to hide.
Spenser.
Pur′port
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Purported
; p. pr. & vb. n.
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
Matter which little
purported
. Rowe.
Webster 1828 Edition
Purport
PUR'PORT
, n.1.
Design or tendency; as the purport of Plato's dialogue.2.
Meaning; import; as the purport of a word or phrase.PUR'PORT
,Verb.
T.
1.
To mean; to signify.