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1 —as in:
Her ex-husband purports that...

Definition

to claim — (often said of something that is not easy to believe or is not true)

Even among the people who purport to understand the technology there is wide disagreement about its ramifications.

purport = claim

Other Uses (with this meaning)

They purport that the poll is unbiased and shows that Americans who are acquainted with the facts support the legislation.

purport = claim

They point to the purported original document as evidence of their ownership.

purported = claimed

The manufacturer purports that the supplement wards off colds.

purports = claims

They purport that the video is of a flying saucer.

purport = claim

They purport to support the legislation out of concern for the environment, but many suspect profit is their primary motive.

purport = claim

I received a letter with a signature that was not very easy to read. It purported to be from a woman I had met at a certain summer resort two or three years ago.
Agatha Christie -- And Then There Were None

purported = claimed

This purports to be from an old friend of mine, Lady Constance Culmington.
Agatha Christie -- And Then There Were None

purports = claims

You wrote to him-a typed letter purporting to be from the same firm offering him a good salary and commission.
Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders
The justification of sacrifice, that your morality propounds, is more corrupt than the corruption it purports to justify.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged

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2 —as in:
The purport of the letter was...

Definition

the general meaning, purpose, intent, or significance of something

The purport of the letter is that she is innocent and claims to the contrary are motivated by greed.

purport = general meaning

Other Uses (with this meaning)

The second letter was from another witness and of the same purport as the first.

purport = general meaning

The purport of the legislation is to improve health care.

purport = purpose or intent

This is what I said, the purport of it; but, as you may imagine, not spoken so collectedly or methodically as I have repeated it to you.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

purport = meaning

I should not have understood the purport of this book had not Felix, in reading it, given very minute explanations.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

purport = meaning or significance

The men of rank and dignity, who stood more immediately around the clergyman, were so taken by surprise, and so perplexed as to the purport of what they saw—unable to receive the explanation which most readily presented itself, or to imagine any other—that they remained silent and inactive spectators of the judgement which Providence seemed about to work.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

purport = meaning

Yet such must be the impression conveyed to you by what appears to be the purport of my actions.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

purport = purpose

"My little Pearl," said Hester, after a moment's silence, "the green letter, and on thy childish bosom, has no purport."
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

purport = meaning

Were I worthy to be quit of it, it would fall away of its own nature, or be transformed into something that should speak a different purport.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

purport = meaning

They little guessed what deadly purport lurked in those self-condemning words.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

purport = meaning or significance

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