Purports is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PURPORTS in dictionary:

VERB:
• PURPORT, to profess or proclaim
• appear to be or do something, especially falsely
NOUN:
• the meaning or sense of something, typically a document or speech
• the purpose or intention of something
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to profess or claim

Words related to PURPORTS

purport11 purported14 purporting15

How to use PURPORTS in a sentence

• It is, as its name purports, round, some four miles in diameter, surrounded by an amphitheatre of hills, beneath whose shadows it reposes in placid and quiet beauty.
• There is nothing so calculated to impair the usefulness of what purports to be a purely benevolent enterprise, as its selfishness.
• A story is a relation which purports to be fiction, no matter how much like truth it may be, and is intended to be received as fiction.
• This letter purports to be from a sergeant of the 12th Polish regiment to his brother, Horni Varlofski.
• It purports to describe the arrival of some of our party at the gates proverbially guarded by St.
• Anatole France purports, by the declaration of its title-page, to contain several profitable narratives.
• The second work, partly historical and largely imaginary, purports to be a history of the ancient Incas, and pictures the old Peru as an earthly paradise.
• A vaulted room in this house is still shown, which purports to have been that occupied by the Maid of Orleans.
• It purports to be an Upanishad of the Atharva Veda and can hardly be described as other than a forgery.
• The additional lines are in themselves fairly good poetry but they have no place in what purports to be translation.
• Ostensibly the law purports to prevent the squatting together of natives in large numbers and in idleness.
• There is one in particular lately adopted in one of the States of the Union, which purports to have been dictated by the most merciful considerations.
• The evolution hypothesis purports to be not only a formal arrangement of phenomena, but to express also the law of a real process.
• BRITTON, the title of the earliest summary of the law of England in the French tongue, which purports to have been written by command of King Edward I.
• In 1919 a translation of extracts from what purports to be a book by one Sergius Nilus was published in Germany.
• The report of Hansard purports to be in the first person.
• It is necessary to add a few words to the foregoing since there has recently appeared what purports to be a contribution to some of the problems that have concerned us.
• By a sort of infection, therefore, we find what purports to be a revelation.
• Elegance is required only in writing which purports to be good literature.
• There are many cases in which what purports to be Christian marriage is between those who are not Christians, or of whom only one is a Christian in any complete sense.
• It purports to have been made at a council held at Tennessee River, on the 1st of March, 1757.
• This poem purports to have been written by Sheldon.
• Albans purports to be a guide to young housekeepers.
• A certificate of death or disability, properly signed, is in the great majority of cases an indisputable evidence of the fact it purports to attest.
• There is plenty of local color in his work, only the color belongs to his own locality, and not to that of the heroes whose adventures he purports to relate.
• There is nothing in the terms of the law that purports to be a compact, or indicates that it was any thing more than an ordinary act of legislation.

Similar words containing PURPORT without suffix s

purport11 purported14 purporting15 purportedly19 purportless15

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