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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-303/
- Published: 2020-11-24T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-11-24T00:54:10.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:38

The word for today is…

purport (verb) – To have or present the often false appearance of being or intending; claim or profess.

(noun) – 1\. Meaning that is presented, intended, or implied.

1. Intention; purpose.

Source : The Free Dictionary

Etymology : The verb purport may be more familiar nowadays, but purport exists as a noun that passed into English from Anglo-French in the 15th century as a synonym of gist. Sir Walter Scott provides us with an example from his 19th-century novel Rob Roy: “I was a good deal mortified at the purport of this letter.” Anglo-French also has the verb purporter (meaning both “to carry” and “to mean”), which combines the prefix pur- (“thoroughly”) and the verb porter (“to carry”). In its original English use, the verb purport meant “to signify”; the “to profess or claim” sense familiar to modern English speakers didn’t appear until the 17th century.

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