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–verb (used with object) 

1. to present, esp. deliberately, the appearance of being; profess (公開宣稱) or claim, often falsely: 



a [document] purporting to be [official].  



2. to convey to the mind as the meaning or thing intended; express or imply.  



–noun 

3. the meaning, import, or sense: 



the [main] purport of your letter.  



4. purpose; intention; object: the main purport of their visit to France.  



—Synonyms 

2. mean, intend, signify. 3. implication, drift, trend, gist (要點). See meaning. 



tenor, gist, drift, trend. Meaning, purport, sense, significance denote that which is expressed or indicated by something. 



Meaning is the general word denoting that which is intended to be or actually is expressed or indicated: the meaning of a word or glance. 



Sense may be used to denote a particular meaning (among others) of a word or phrase: The word is frequently used in this [sense]. Sense may also be used loosely to refer to intelligible meaning: There's no [sense] in what he says. 



Significance refers particularly to a meaning that is implied rather than expressed: the significance of her [glance]; or to a meaning the importance of which may not be easy to perceive immediately: The real significance of his words was not [grasped] at the time. 



Purport is mainly limited to the meaning of a formal document, speech, important conversation, etc., 

and refers to the gist of something fairly complicated: 



the purport of your [letter] to the [editor]. 





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purport (v.)   

 

This publication purport[s] to be the voice of the new party and This publication is purport[ed] to be the voice of the new party differ in meaning: 



purport[s] to be suggests that it "intends" or "pretends" or "claims" to be; 



is purport[ed] to be suggests that it "is thought to be" or "has been [put forward] by others as being." 



Both uses are Standard.





　

Perelman debuted with 2003’s House of Sand and Fog, a well received literary adaptation that garnered three Oscar noms, including a Best Actor nod for Ben Kingsley. Earlier this year, his follow-up, The Life Before Her Eyes starring Uma Thurman and Marilyn Manson’s muse, was memorably defecated [on] by the majority of critics. 



Perelman’s penchant for literature purportedly played a part in his attachment [to] the long-planned adaptation of Atlas Shrugged. 



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Tantalizingly, Fox’s complaint, which does not name Paramount, said that Warner [settled] a [dispute] with an unidentified "purported rights holder" by sharing part of its own [claimed] interest. Patricia S. Rockenwagner, a Paramount spokeswoman, says her studio has foreign distribution rights to the film.





  　

The disheartening failure of specialized institutions and the irreparably damaging effect that they can have on the ailing patients 



that they purport to help are highlighted 



in actress-turned-filmmaker Sandrine Bonnaire's intimate portrait of her autistic sister Sabine.