Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
purport .
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- verb Common misspelling of
purport
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Examples
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The Dems idea of health care reform harms the exact constituency that they proport to protect.
Democrats slam GOP as party of 'fear' in health care debate 2009
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He had da heart of epic proport- proprot- He had da supah sizes heart!
Plz won’t u be - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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And refuse, and resist to secure our borders, when, at a time when the principal victims of the -- principle source, of course, of methamphetamines, heroin, cocaine, and marijuana is Mexico, yet the very people who proport to represent some of the ethnic peoples in this country who are being most devastated by addiction and by those drugs are refusing to secure the border.
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And refuse, and resist to secure our borders, when, at a time when the principal victims of the -- principle source, of course, of methamphetamines, heroin, cocaine, and marijuana is Mexico, yet the very people who proport to represent some of the ethnic peoples in this country who are being most devastated by addiction and by those drugs are refusing to secure the border.
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I am seeing increasingly sites which proport to be CHRISTIAN which are truly Holocaust deny-er sites, dressed up in outrage at the Satanic Bush.
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It costs more to go out and actually dig up real storys, but its much closer to the job discription you proport to fill.
News - chicagotribune.com Brad Poole 2012
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I appreciate your strength of faith, but the book you proport to be infallable was written by those who wished to control and profit from other people who are willing to be led.
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History has shown us that the people most likely to inflict biological warfare on the UK and USA people are the very governments that proport to protect us.
The Guardian World News Nicolaus Mills 2011
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According to Jobs, the issue is being experienced by a very small proport ...
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It is almost impossible that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will be as good, as dark and as hardcore as this super bowl spot proport it to be.
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