Repute vs Purport - What's the difference?
repute | purport |
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.
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
* Shakespeare
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 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
(-)Verb
(reput)- Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
- The king your father was reputed for / A prince most prudent.
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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.