Meaning of Purport | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Import, intention or purpose.
2. A disguise; a covering.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“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 most real.”

“A child’s brain starts functioning at birth; and has, amongst its many infant convolutions, thousands of dormant atoms, into which God has put a mystic possibility for noticing an adult’s act, and figuring out its purport.”

“For she her sex under that strange purport / Did use to hide.”

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