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Purport

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purport (per-PORT), verb

to be something you are not; pretending to do something you aren’t in fact doing.

“Doris Lessing PURPORTS to remember in the most minute detail the moth-eaten party dresses she pulled, at age thirteen, from her mother’s trunk.” – Tim Parks, British novelist

Front	Purport
Back	purport (per-PORT), verb to be something you are not; pretending to do something you aren’t in fact doing. “Doris Lessing PURPORTS to remember in the most minute detail the moth-eaten party dresses she pulled, at age thirteen, from her mother’s trunk.” – Tim Parks, British novelist

Purport Per Port Verb Pretending Aren’t Fact Doris Lessing