Purporting synonyms

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proposing
To purpose, plan, or intend
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purposing
(passive) Designed for some purpose.
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aiming
(Intransitive) To direct the intention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try to gain; to endeavor;—followed by at, or by an infinitive; as, to aim at distinction; to aim to do well.
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thrusting
To force one's way (into, through, etc.)
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sensing
To detect automatically:
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professing
To affirm openly; declare or claim:
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pointing
To sharpen to a point, as a pencil
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objecting
Object is defined as to reason or argument against something.
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meaning
The definition of mean is to have in mind as a purpose.
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maintaining
To declare in a positive way; assert
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importing
To mean, signify.
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drifting
To live or behave without a clear purpose or goal:
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implying
(Of a person or proposition) to hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement
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indicating
To suggest or demonstrate the necessity, expedience, or advisability of:
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Purporting Sentence Examples

  • No evidence of settlement on the site of Lyme Regis exists before that afforded by a grant, dated 774, purporting to be by Cynewulf, king of the West-Saxons, of land here to the church of Sherborne, and a similar grant by King Æthelstan to the church of Glastonbury.

  • His Geheimes Jagdbuch, containing about 2500 words, is a treatise purporting to teach his grandsons the art of hunting.

  • A document was published in London purporting to be a "Declaration of Mr Alexander Henderson made upon his Death-bed "; and, although this paper was disowned, denounced and shown to be false in the General Assembly of August 1648, the document was used by Clarendon as giving the impression that Henderson had recanted.

  • At the beginning of the 17th century a collection of songs was published by a Norman lawyer, Jean Le Houx, purporting to be the work of Olivier Basselin.

  • Two short treatises exist, purporting to be lives of Gildas, and ascribed respectively to the 11th and 12th centuries; but the writers of both are believed to have confounded two, if not more, persons that had borne the name.

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