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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Purport \Pur"port\, noun [OF. purport; pur, pour, for (L. pro) + porter to bear, carry. See {Port} demeanor.]
1. Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor.
The whole scope and purport of that dialogue. Norris. With a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell. -- Shak.
2. Disguise; covering. [Obs.]
For she her sex under that strange purport Did use to hide. --Spenser.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Purport \Pur"port\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Purported}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Purporting}.] [OF. purporter, pourporter. See {Purport}, noun] To intend to show; to intend; to mean; to signify; to import; -- often with an object clause or infinitive.
They in most grave and solemn wise unfolded Matter which little purported. --Rowe.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
purport
noun
1: the intended meaning of a communication [syn: {intent}, {spirit}]
2: general meaning or tenor; "caught the drift of the conversation" [syn: {drift}]
verb
1: have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming; "The letter purports to express people's opinion"
2: propose or intend; "I aim to arrive at noon" [syn: {aim}, {purpose}, {propose}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
108 Moby Thesaurus words for "purport": academic, acceptation, affective meaning, aim, aim at, allege, aspire after, aspire to, avow, be after, bearing, burden, claim, coloring, connotation, consequence, core, denotation, design, desire, destine, determine, drift, drive at, effect, essence, extension, force, gist, go for, grammatical meaning, harbor a design, have every intention, idea, impact, implication, import, intend, intendment, intension, lexical meaning, literal meaning, matter, mean, meaning, meat, message, ostensible, overtone, pertinence, pith, plan, point, postulated, practical consequence, presupposed, pretend, pretended, pretext, profess, professed, project, propose, protest too much, purported, purpose, range of meaning, real meaning, reference, referent, relation, relevance, reputed, resolve, rumored, scope, semantic cluster, semantic field, sense, significance, significancy, signification, significatum, signifie, so-called, span of meaning, speculative, spirit, structural meaning, substance, sum, sum and substance, supposed, suppositional, suppositive, suspected, symbolic meaning, tenor, theoretical, think, thrust, totality of associations, transferred meaning, unadorned meaning, understanding, undertone, upshot, value
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