Purport

Verb

 * 1) To convey, imply, or profess outwardly, often falsely.
 * He purports himself to be an international man of affairs.
 * 1) To intend.
 * He purported to become an international man of affairs.

Noun

 * 1) import, intention or purpose
 * 2) * 1748, David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
 * My practice, you say, refutes my doubts. But you mistake the purport of my question.
 * 1) *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.

Adjectives for Purport
dramatic; mystical; true; dim; commercial; industrial; therapeutic; pacific enduring; divine; microscopic; apposite doubtful; especial; colloquial; admirable dumb; insuperable; ineradicable; ostensible; selfsame; infirm; half-formed; prime; economic.

Verbs for Purport
achieve—; adhere' to—; attain—; contrive for—; convey—; crystallize—; defeat—; disclose—; divert from—; divine—; extract —from; fulfill—; galvanize into—; inspire by—; intend for—; interpret—; overcloud —; pursue—; serve—; stiffen—; subserve —; swerve from—; thwart—.

Thesaurus
academic, acceptation, affective meaning, aim, aim at, allege, aspire after, aspire to, avow, be after, bearing, burden, claim, coloring, connotation, consequence, core, denotation, design, desire, destine, determine, drift, drive at, effect, essence, extension, force, gist, go for, grammatical meaning, harbor a design, have every intention, idea, impact, implication, import, intend, intendment, intension, lexical meaning, literal meaning, matter, mean, meaning, meat, message, ostensible, overtone, pertinence, pith, plan, point, postulated, practical consequence, presupposed, pretend, pretended, pretext, profess, professed, project, propose, protest too much, purported, purpose, range of meaning, real meaning, reference, referent, relation, relevance, reputed, resolve, rumored, scope, semantic cluster, semantic field, sense, significance, significancy, signification, significatum, signifie, so-called, span of meaning, speculative, spirit, structural meaning, substance, sum, sum and substance, supposed, suppositional, suppositive, suspected, symbolic meaning, tenor, theoretical, think, thrust, totality of associations, transferred meaning, unadorned meaning, understanding, undertone, upshot, value

Etymology
From, from purporter:, from pur-: from  pro: +  porter:, from  porto:.

Pronunciation 2

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Verb

 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:


 * Portuguese: pretender, dizer, supor
 * Russian: изображать, притворяться


 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:


 * French:
 * Russian: намереваться

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Dutch:, intentie,
 * Finnish:


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: намерение

Anagrams

 * prorupt