All 4 Uses of
purport
in
Mansfield Park
- And Edmund, silenced, was obliged to acknowledge that the charm of acting might well carry fascination to the mind of genius; and with the ingenuity of love, to dwell more on the obliging, accommodating purport of the message than on anything else.
Chpt 13purport = meaning
- Fanny had by no means forgotten Mr. Crawford when she awoke the next morning; but she remembered the purport of her note, and was not less sanguine as to its effect than she had been the night before.
Chpt 32purport = message
- Coming as he did from such a purport fulfilled as had taken him away, he would have expected anything rather than a look of satisfaction, and words of simple, pleasant meaning.
Chpt 34purport = purpose
- 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.
Chpt 47 *purport = meaning
Definition:
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(purport as in: The purport of the letter was...) the general meaning, purpose, intent, or significance of something