I. verb
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Clearing the house after a relative died, I came across what purports to be a passport to Hay-on-Wye.
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It is true that this model does not purport to describe accurately the way in which the market economy actually functions.
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Such books purport to present the past ` as it was', taking for granted that this is what photographs do.
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The relationship between an image and the reality it purports to represent is, according to many contemporary critics, inherently political.
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Wasn't Rune Christensen as much a player of games as the man he purported to despise?
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Wolfgang von Goethe, recently liberated from his university studies of law, visited Ensisheim in 1771 to see the purported meteorite.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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The purport of his remarks is already familiar.
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The purport of that attack was to prove that generality could never be an intrinsic property of a mental content.
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Why then did she not inform herself of the purport and effect of the transfer before signing it?