purport

purport

1. merkitys

Synonyymisanakirja

purport

kulku, juoksu, ajatus, tarkoitus, sisältö, merkitys, sisällys, aikomus, mieli, aikoa, tarkoittaa, ajatella, pyrkiä, väittää.

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Englannin sanakirja

purport (englanti > suomi)

1. esiintyä, esittää

2. aikoa

3. tarkoitus

purport englanniksi

1. To convey, imply, or profess outwardly (often falsely).

He purports himself to be an international man of affairs.

2. puhekieltä To intend.

He purported to become an international man of affairs.

3. import, intention or purpose

4. 1748, w:David Hume|David Hume, s:An Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingPART II.|An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

My practice, you say, refutes my doubts. But you mistake the purport of my question.

5. 1843, w:Thomas_Carlyle Thomas Carlyle, :w:Past and Present (book)|Past and Present, book 4, chapter I, Aristocracies

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.

6. 1939, w:Ernest Vincent Wright|Ernest Vincent Wright, s:GadsbyChapter 1|Gadsby

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.

7. puhekieltä disguise; covering

8. Spenser

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

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