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Repute vs Purport - What's the difference?

repute | purport |

As verbs the difference between repute and purport

is that repute is while purport is to convey, imply, or profess outwardly (often falsely).

As a noun purport is

import, intention or purpose.

repute

English

Noun

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  • Reputation, especially a good reputation.
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  • *:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
  • Verb

    (reput)
  • To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
  • To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something
  • * Bible, Job xviii. 3
  • Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
  • * Shakespeare
  • The king your father was reputed for / A prince most prudent.

    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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