Purport vs Display - What's the difference?
purport | display |
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
(obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.v:
To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
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, title= * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
(military) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.
(printing, dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
(obsolete) To discover; to descry.
* Chapman
In obsolete terms the difference between purport and display
is that purport is disguise; covering while display is to discover; to descry.As verbs the difference between purport and display
is that purport is to convey, imply, or profess outwardly (often falsely) while display is to spread out, to unfurl.As nouns the difference between purport and display
is that purport is import, intention or purpose while display is a show or spectacle.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.
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(en verb)- The wearie Traueiler, wandring that way, / Therein did often quench his thristy heat, / And then by it his wearie limbes display , / Whiles creeping slomber made him to forget / His former paine [...].
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
citation, passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].}}
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- (Farrow)
- And from his seat took pleasure to display / The city so adorned with towers.
