All 3 Uses of
purport
in
Atlas Shrugged
- Lillian glanced about the office; her glance had the same style of amusement as her hat: an amusement purporting to express maturity by the conviction that life could be nothing but ridiculous.†
Chpt 3.3purporting = claiming
- She could not believe that she was supposed to feel respect for the dreary senselessness of the art shows which his friends attended, of the novels they read, of the political magazines they discussed-the art shows, where she saw the kind of drawings she had seen chalked on any pavement of her childhood's slums-the novels, that purported to prove the futility of science, industry, civilization and love, using language that her father would not have used in his drunkenest moments-the magazines, that propounded cowardly generalities, less clear and more stale than the sermons for which she had condemned the preacher of the slum mission as a mealy-mouthed old fraud.†
Chpt 3.4purported = claimed or assumed
- The justification of sacrifice, that your morality propounds, is more corrupt than the corruption it purports to justify.†
Chpt 3.7 *purports = claims
Definitions:
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(1)
(purport as in: Her ex-husband purports that...) to claim -- (often said of something that is not easy to believe or is not true)
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(2)
(purport as in: The purport of the letter was...) the general meaning, purpose, intent, or significance of something