Pur″port (?), n. [OF. purport; pur, pour, for (L. pro) + porter to bear, carry. See Port demeanor.]
1. Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor.
The whole scope and purport of that dialogue. Norris.
With a look so piteous in purport
As if he had been loosed out of hell. Shak.
2. Disguise; covering.
For she her sex under that strange purport
Did use to hide. Spenser.