Crossword-Solution: PURPORT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Purport | n. | Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor. |
| Purport | n. | Disguise; covering. |
| Purport | n. | To intend to show; to intend; to mean; to signify; to import; -- often with an object clause or infinitive. |
We have 19 clues for the answer “PURPORT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| assert mean | 1 answer |
| Profess or claim | 1 answer |
| Meaning, substance | 1 answer |
| Intended meaning | 1 answer |
| ACCEPTATION | 9 answers |
| ALLUDE to | 17 answers |
| signification | 23 answers |
| Implication | 28 answers |
| Profess | 29 answers |
| Allege | 32 answers |
| Signify. | 41 answers |
| Gist | 44 answers |
| Intention | 55 answers |
| Pretend | 56 answers |
| Tenor | 63 answers |
| Claim | 64 answers |
| Meaning | 67 answers |
| Aim | 68 answers |
| Significance | 77 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PURPORT (5)
Capitulation—that was the purport of the simple reply, guarded as it was—capitulation, unknown to herself.
The purport of the answer that the God Returned to us who sought his oracle, The messengers have doubtless told thee—how One course alone could rid us of the pest, To find the murderers of Laius, And slay them or expel them from the land.
There was, moreover, a boldness and rotundity of speech among these matrons, as most of them seemed to be, that would startle us at the present day, whether in respect to its purport or its volume of tone.
Such is the general purport of this legendary superstition, which has furnished materials for many a wild story in that region of shadows; and the spectre is known at all the country firesides, by the name of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.
Call forth your own utan, Kar Komak!” The Lotharian looked at Carthoris in wide-eyed astonishment as the full purport of the suggestion bore in upon his understanding.
Quotes with PURPORT (3)
But there is only one mechanism to life, one way in which Reality functions. Theology, the rendered definition behind religion, philosophy and science all purport to depict that functionality. But if each fails to do so accurately, that invalidity needs to be exposed — and the only way to do that is to point out the fallacious elements of the description.
One of the main arguments that I make is that although almost everyone accepts that it is morally wrong to inflict “unnecessary” suffering and death on animals, 99% of the suffering and death that we inflict on animals can be justified only by our pleasure, amusement, or convenience. For example, the best justification that we have for killing the billions of nonhumans that we eat every year is that we enjoy the taste of animal flesh and animal products. This is not an accept…
Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the Bible does not purport to be a textbook of science, the old controversy between religion and science vanishes . . . The doctrine of the Trinity is much more abstruse than anything in relativity or quantum mechanics; but, being necessary for salvation, the doctrine is stated in the Bible. If the theory of relativity had also been necessary…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1973–2015).