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Meanings of purport in English

Portuguese
significado
Catalan
intenció
Spanish
intención

The intended meaning of a communication.

        significado
        Spanish
        proponer

        Propose or intend.

              proponer
              Spanish
              significado

              The pervading meaning or tenor.

                    significado
                    Usage of purport in English
                    1
                    Republicans purport to be responding to a greater need in rural areas.
                    Ebony
                    2
                    The general purport of the book is well represented by the title.
                    Carried Off: A Story of Pirate Times
                    3
                    His Introduction sets out in outline the purport of the entire book.
                    The Recreations of a Country Parson
                    4
                    Such used to be the purport of the protest of the atheists.
                    System of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of Miser...
                    5
                    Racist groups that purport to be Christian are the opposite of Christian.
                    Heaven
                    6
                    His prophecies, indeed, came true in their general, not their particular, purport.
                    Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
                    7
                    We don't purport to attempt to dislodge the large international engineering firms.
                    The Irish Times
                    8
                    In truth, sir, I do not know the purport of the question.
                    Manuel Pereira; Or, The Sovereign Rule of South Carolina
                    9
                    A few brief extracts will give the key to its general purport:-
                    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
                    10
                    Listen, and reply not; the purport will be vouchsafed to thee anon.
                    Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2
                    11
                    The princess broke it open and read it and apprehended its purport.
                    Tales from the Arabic — Complete
                    12
                    Her heart misgave her as she took it; she guessed its purport.
                    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 04 — Fiction
                    13
                    The purport of such works is the conversion of pig-lead into white-lead.
                    The Uncommercial Traveller
                    14
                    I am merely making notes; you shall know their purport fully later.
                    Three John Silence Stories
                    15
                    Oscar inquired next what the purport of the letter was to be.
                    Poor Miss Finch
                    16
                    The purport of this is that the church is a collective center.
                    The Promulgation of Universal Peace
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                    Translations for purport
                    Catalan
                    intenció
                    Purport through the time
                    Purport across language varieties
                    United Kingdom
                    Common
                    United States of America
                    Less common