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Another word for purport

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Noun

  1. That which is signified by a word or expression

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  2. The gist of a specific action or situation

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  3. The general sense or significance, as of an action or statement

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  4. The thread or current of thought uniting or occurring in all the elements of a text or discourse

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Another word for purport

Noun
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    meaning

Verb
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    mean

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Sentence Examples

  • The oldest books now in the possession of the modern Jains purport to go back, not to the foundation of the existing order in the 6th century B.C., but only to the time of Bhadrabahu, three centuries later.

  • The use for which the pot was intended and the purport of the inscription have been much disputed, there being at least as many interpretations as there are words in the inscription.

  • But the main purport of the treatise was the exposition of an elaborate system of celestial harmonies depending on the various and varying velocities of the several planets, of which the sentient soul animating the sun was the solitary auditor.

  • But the trend of recent policy and purport of much recent legislation are against this view.

  • The apocryphal Acta Barnabae purport to have been written by him.

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