Purport
Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor.
Disguise; covering.
To intend to show; to intend; to mean; to signify; to import; -- often with an object clause or infinitive.
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Purport Quotations
In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
Angela Carter
Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.
Brit Hume
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
Purport Translations
purport in German is behaupten
purport in Spanish is significado
purport in Swedish is mening
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