Purport vs Portray - What's the difference?
purport | portray |
To convey, imply, or profess outwardly (often falsely).
To intend.
import, intention or purpose
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(obsolete) disguise; covering
* Spenser
As verbs the difference between purport and portray
is that purport is to convey, imply, or profess outwardly (often falsely) while portray is to paint or draw the likeness of.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.
