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1. Have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming
   "The letter purports to express people's opinion"
    
2. Have as a plan or objective
   - aim, purpose, propose, intend

1. The intended meaning of a communication
   - intent, spirit
    
2. The pervading meaning or tenor
   "caught the general purport of the conversation";
   - drift

Derived forms: purported, purports, purporting

Type of: claim, import, intend, mean, meaning, significance, signification, strain, tenor, think

Encyclopedia: Purport