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purview

/ˈpɜː(ɹ)vjuː/

purview noun: the enacting part of a statute.

Noun

purview (plural purviews)

  1. The enacting part of a statute.
  2. The scope of a statute.
  3. Scope or range of interest or control.
    • Will it be said that the fundamental principles of the Confederation were not within the purview of the convention, and ought not to have been varied?1788, James Madison, “The Right of the Convention to Frame such a Constitution”, in The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, page 255
    • Rhetorical relations have truth conditional effects that contribute to meaning but lie outside the purview of compositional semantics.2003, Nicholas Asher, Alex Lascarides, Logics of Conversation, page 7
    Synonyms:
    responsibility
  4. Range of understanding.
    • Our company were noisy, gay, quarrelsome, full of facile theories, with glib explanations of everything, persuaded that there is nothing they could not understand and no human destiny outside the purview of their system.1922, Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China, page 18

purview meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Kannada

purview in Tamil

அகப்பாடெல்லை, அகப்பாட்டெல்லை, உள்ளீட்டெல்லை, நோக்கெல்லை

purview in Urdu

قابلیت, سلسلہ

purview in Bengali

পরিধি, আওতা

purview in Kannada

ಹರಹು, ಹರವು

Examples of purview in a sentence

  • But more and more, things are falling within the purview, including politics.
  • Except for a concatenation of historical accidents, he would have fallen under its purview himself.
  • And yet, only some of the mysteries I wanted to explore lay within the limited purview of delphinology.

All 12 example sentences with purview

Synonyms of purview

Forms of purview

pluralpurviews

Origin of purview

From Middle English purveu (“proviso”), from Anglo-Norman purveu est (“it is provided”), or purveu que (“provided that”) (statutory language), from Old French porveü (“provided”), past participle of porveoir (“to provide”), from Latin prōvideō (see provide). Influenced by view and its etymological antecedents.

Questions about purview

What does purview mean?
Purview means the enacting part of a statute.
What is purview in Tamil?
Purview in Tamil is அகப்பாடெல்லை, அகப்பாட்டெல்லை, உள்ளீட்டெல்லை. See Purview meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is purview?
Purview is a noun.
How do you pronounce purview?
Purview is pronounced /ˈpɜː(ɹ)vjuː/.
What is the plural of purview?
The plural of purview is purviews.

Words near purview in the dictionary

  1. purveyour
  2. purveyours
  3. purveys
  4. Purviance
  5. Purviances
  6. purview
  7. purviews
  8. Purvis
  9. Purvises
  10. purvo
  11. purvoe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: purview (page history and authors); purview (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); purview (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); purview (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); purview (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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