purport
 transitive verb
 asumir
EN I feel that the Pope's visit to Cuba was fundamental, because it's astonishing that, at the end of the twentieth century, no lesser a personage than the Pope should purport to be the saviour of a Marxist revolution.
GL A visita do Papa a Cuba pareceume un feito capital, porque era sorprendente que, ó final do século XX, un Papa pouco menos que se asumise como o salvador dunha revolución marxista.
 Fonte: C01 (1318)
noun
propósito
EN Unwilling to provoke any more ridicule of the sentiment which filled his heart, he now directed his inquiries to the immediate purport of his visit.
GL E non querendo dar conxeito a se facer máis chufa do sentimento que enchía o seu corazón, dirixiu as súas pescudas ó propósito inmediato da súa visita.
Fonte: ALH (609)
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