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purports

purports is the plural of purport.

purports is the third-person singular simple present indicative of purport.

Meaning of purport

Noun

purport (plural purports)

  1. Import, an intention or purpose.
    • My practice, you say, refutes my doubts. But you mistake the purport of my question.1748, [David Hume], Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, part 2
  2. (obsolete) A disguise; a covering.
    • For she her sex under that strange purport / Did use to hide.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 52

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Questions about purports

What is purports the plural of?
Purports is the plural of purport.

Words near purports in the dictionary

  1. purportedly
  2. purporting
  3. purportion
  4. purportions
  5. purportless
  6. purports
  7. purpose
  8. purpose clause
  9. purpose clauses
  10. purpose loan
  11. purpose loans

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