OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 22060

purport

/pəˈpɔːt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
propósito
Import, intention or purpose.
My practice, you say, refutes my doubts. But you mistake the purport of my question.
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 mos…
Phrases
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Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 22059

purport

/pəˈpɔːt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
afirmar • expresar • implicar • profesar
To convey, imply, or profess (often falsely or inaccurately).
He purports himself to be an international man of affairs.
The intermediate station seen here, Llanbister Road, is 5 hilly miles by road from the town it purports to serve.
intencionar • pretender
To intend.
He purported to become an international man of affairs.
In all cases, however, although micronations may purport to assert sovereignty in any number of ways, they remain conceptually distinct from recognised sovereign states.