Purport vs Announce - What's the difference?
purport | announce |
To convey, imply, or profess outwardly (often falsely).
To intend.
import, intention or purpose
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(obsolete) disguise; covering
* Spenser
(label) To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.
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, title= (label) To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.
* (Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)
As verbs the difference between purport and announce
is that purport is to convey, imply, or profess outwardly (often falsely) while announce is (label) to give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.As a noun purport
is import, intention or purpose.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.
Anagrams
*announce
English
Verb
(announc)- Her [Queen Elizabeth’s] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts.
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.}}
Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}
- Publish laws, announce / Or life or death.