Both Uses of
purport
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- 'Why do you think you had once?' asked Nicholas, turning quickly upon him as though the answer in some way helped out the purport of his question.†
Chpt 22
- Nicholas understood the tone of triumph in which this interrogatory was put; but remembering the necessity of supporting his assumed character, produced a scrap of paper purporting to contain a list of some subjects for drawings which his employer desired to have executed; and with which he had prepared himself in case of any such contingency.†
Chpt 53 *
Definition:
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(purport as in: Her ex-husband purports that...) to claim -- (often said of something that is not easy to believe or is not true)