What does purport mean?

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What does purport mean? Can someone tell me in easy deffinition?

Answer 1

If you say that someone or something purports to do or be a particular thing, you mean that they claim to do or be that thing. Sometimes you also mean that in your opinion this claim is false. Example - There were advertisements for cosmetics purporting to delay the development of wrinkles. The Party purports to be the alternative government in Britain.

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Purporting Meaning

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What does purport mean?
What does purport mean? Can someone tell me in easy deffinition?

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1. The bible is not only for those with formal training of any sort. That would defeat the purpose of protestantism. Now if you're a catholic I understand... 2. The bible is interpreted for us by people with formal training and laymen alike. Invariably, it's total bull. 3. If 6 days is nonsense, there is no reason to say 6 days if you can say 6 billion years. Face it, they just didn't know anything about these timeframes back when they wrote it. The catch is that if 6 days is wrong, maybe it's all wrong? 4. You say you're a anti-atheist, but what you really are is anti-rationalist. You're attacking rational analysis here, not atheism.

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Usually pretending to be something it is not. I don't purport to you that this is a definitive answer, just a helpful one.

James purported to be a professor, when he in fact was a teaching assistant.

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American Heritage® Dictionary: Description of purport
TRANSITIVE VERB: 1. To have or present the often false appearance of being or intending; profess: selfish behavior that purports to be altruistic (unselfish).

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Claim

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Claim. Why don't you get a dictionary, hon?

Answer 9

It means to imply, ususally with the intent to deceive.

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suggest