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Intent vs Purport - What's the difference?

intent | purport |

As nouns the difference between intent and purport

is that intent is a purpose; something that is intended while purport is import, intention or purpose.

As an adjective intent

is firmly fixed or concentrated on something.

As a verb purport is

to convey, imply, or profess outwardly (often falsely).

intent

English

Alternative forms

* entent (obsolete)

Noun

  • A purpose; something that is intended.
  • (legal) The state of someone’s mind at the time of committing an offence.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Firmly fixed or concentrated on something.
  • :
  • *2014 , Daniel Taylor, " World Cup 2014: Uruguay sink England as Suárez makes his mark," guardian.co.uk , 20 June:
  • *:Uruguay were quick to the ball, strong in the tackle and seemed intent on showing they were a better team than had been apparent in their defeat to Costa Rica.
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  • *:And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed.
  • Engrossed.
  • Unwavering from a course of action.

    • Related terms

    * for all intents and purposes * intend * intense * intention * intensive * intent on * intently * to all intents and purposes * with intent

    purport

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To convey, imply, or profess outwardly (often falsely).
    • He purports himself to be an international man of affairs.
  • To intend.
    • He purported to become an international man of affairs.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • import, intention or purpose
  • * 1748 ,
    • My practice, you say, refutes my doubts. But you mistake the purport of my question.
  • * 1843 , '', book 4, chapter I, ''Aristocracies
    • Sorrowful, phantasmal as this same Double Aristocracy of Teachers and Governors now looks, it is worth all men’s while to know that the purport of it is, and remains, noble and most real.
  • * 1939 ,
    • A child’s brain starts functioning at birth; and has, amongst its many infant convolutions, thousands of dormant atoms, into which God has put a mystic possibility for noticing an adult’s act, and figuring out its purport .
  • (obsolete) disguise; covering
  • * Spenser
    • For she her sex under that strange purport / Did use to hide.

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