This book purports to be the product chiefly of three minds: that of the author who gives a historical sketch of the early church, and those of Peter and Paul whose discourses are reported.
It purportsto be the work of "a true Lover of his Nation, and especially of the said City.
The formerpurports to have been grounded on the Catholicon of Balbus, 1460, the Cornucopia of Perottus, the Gemma Vocabulorum, and the Medulla Grammatices, with additions by Ascensius.
Azarias to the Song which purports to he the composition of the Three.
Thus my form has strictly grown from my purports and facts, and is the analogy of them.
The poems of life are great, but there must be the poems of the purports of life, not only in itself, but beyond itself.
The document, however, we have to add farther, though it purports to be an Order of Council, did not actually or fully take effect.
A healthy reaction would set in at once, and with it a desire to make the currency equal to what it purports to be.
It purports to have been written soon after the destruction of Jerusalem, during the calamities which followed that disaster; and it bears the character of the age to which it professes to belong.
The notes of time extant in the epistle itself agree with its title, and with the testimonies concerning it, for it purports to have been written during the life-time of Clement.
The intentional waggery of misinformation masquerading as truth begins where Field leaves the recital of his life to give what purports to be an analysis of his character and sentiments.
There is nothing in the terms of the law that purports to be a compact, or indicates that it was any thing more than an ordinary act of legislation.
To prove that it was more than it purports to be on its face, gentlemen must produce other evidence, and prove that there was such an understanding as to create a moral obligation in the nature of a compact.
For if that statute were declaratory of the common law, as it purports to be ['Be it enacted and declared that all false returns wilfully made' &c.
Please look and see which of those tickets the list purports to show that they voted?
Please state from the heading what tickets it purports to show they voted?
It is not the work of Adamnán himself, but merely purports to give an account of the laws which he passed, and the circumstances of his doing so.
The writingpurports to be by an editorial group of four ladies with Mrs. Haywood as editor-in-chief.
A document, as a letter, deed, or will, wholly in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds and whose act it purports to be.
This letter is what it purports to be: a missive from the actual thief; or else it comes from some well-wisher of yours, who sacrifices twenty pounds to do you a service.
It purports to be sent by the stealer of the money for the purpose of clearing me.
To make the humbug more complete, she narrates imaginary incidents, asserting them to have occurred in the earth-experience of the spirit who purports to have possession of her at the same time she is speaking.
A mental process which is knowledge purports to be connected with something other than itself, something which may not be a mental process at all.
A second consideration overlooked by the Protagorean tendencies of the day is that judgment, even if it is instrumental, purports to give us knowledge, that is, it claims to reveal what is independent of the judging process.
The things or elements get into the state which is their adjustment, and this adjustment purports to be their actual and unequivocal ordering in relation to one another.
The book purports to have been printed in one hundred copies; but not more than half that number, it is said, have been distributed.
It purports to combine the Irish Sketch Book, the Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo, and Vanity Fair as far as it had then gone; but it does in truth deal chiefly with the literary merits of the latter.
Major-General Halleck, General-in-Chief: My attention has been called to what purports to be an official despatch of General R.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "purports" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
