Privy vs Purport - What's the difference?
privy | purport |
Private, exclusive; not public; one's own.
Secret, hidden, concealed.
* 1967 , William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner , Vintage 2004, p. 82:
With knowledge of; party to; let in on.
An outdoor toilet; latrine; earth closet; john; johnny house.
(legal) A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party.
To convey, imply, or profess outwardly (often falsely).
To intend.
import, intention or purpose
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* 1843 , '', book 4, chapter I, ''Aristocracies
* 1939 ,
(obsolete) disguise; covering
* Spenser
As nouns the difference between privy and purport
is that privy is an outdoor toilet; latrine; earth closet; john; johnny house while purport is import, intention or purpose.As an adjective privy
is private, exclusive; not public; one's own.As a verb purport is
to convey, imply, or profess outwardly (often falsely).privy
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The king retreated to his privy chamber.
- the privy purse
- Nonetheless, in the dark and privy stillness of our minds there are few of us who are not still haunted by worrisome doubts.
- He was privy to the discussions.
Noun
(privies)- (Burrill)
- (Wharton)
purport
English
Verb
(en verb)- He purports himself to be an international man of affairs.
- He purported to become an international man of affairs.
Noun
(en noun)- My practice, you say, refutes my doubts. But you mistake the purport of my question.
- 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.
- 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 .
- For she her sex under that strange purport / Did use to hide.