Purport

It’s quite obvious that the purport of these misanthropic theories consists in slandering the working masses, relieving imperialism from the responsibility for the bloody wars it provokes, and imposing the thought that wars are endless and are allegedly caused by aggressive tendencies in human nature.

You purport to know what you're talking about; why don't you know about this?

The text did not purport to be comprehensive.

I do not purport to be an expert on this topic.

He purports himself to be an international man of affairs.

The intermediate station seen here, Llanbister Road, is 5 hilly miles by road from the town it purports to serve.

He purported to become an international man of affairs.

In all cases, however, although micronations may purport to assert sovereignty in any number of ways, they remain conceptually distinct from recognised sovereign states.

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.