Purports Synonyms

The thread or current of thought uniting or occurring in all the elements of a text or discourse
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. thrusts
  2. tendencies
  3. drifts
  4. burdens
  5. aims
  6. tenors
  7. substances
  8. meanings
  9. intents
The intended meaning of a communication
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. imports
  2. significances
  3. intents
  4. spirits
  5. drifts
  6. points
  7. meanings
  8. ideas
The general sense or significance, as of an action or statement
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. imports
  2. drifts
  3. burdens
  4. amounts
  5. tenors
  6. substances
That which is signified by a word or expression
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. values
  2. senses
  3. messages
  4. imports
  5. significations
  6. significances
  7. meanings
  8. intents
  9. denotations
  10. connotations
Meaning that is presented, intended, or implied; import.
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. substances

Purports Sentence Examples

  • Nennius' Historia Britonum gives what purports to be a list of these cities.

  • Lessing' in 1773, which purports to have been sent by Archimedes to the mathematicians at Alexandria in a letter to Eratosthenes.

  • The Arithmetica, the greatest treatise on which the fame of Diophantus rests, purports to be in thirteen Books, but none of the Greek MSS.

  • It purports to be a conversation at the little town of Beaucaire between a soldier (obviously the writer himself) and three men, citizens of Marseilles, Nimes and Montpellier, who oppose the Jacobinical government and hope for victory over its forces.

  • It purports to be by Paul, and was held to be his by Marcion and in the Muratorian canon, and by Irenaeus, Tertullian and Clement of Alexandria, all writing at the end of the 2nd century.

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