Meaning of Purport | Babel Free
pəˈpɔːtEquivalents
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⟳.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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