0 to pretend to be or to do something, especially in a way that is not easy to believe:
The first is how linguistic factors purported to affect structural borrowing are identified, defined, and supported.
The sounds of muzak are purported to produce specific musical affects.
The term 'face validity' simply means that the instrument appears to measure what it purports to.
Violence purported to cover the loss of authority and askesis eliminated nameless but dangerous desires; sometimes the two traded places.
The maxim is also a comprehensive representation of the world, a generalized description of the "real," purporting to swallow up all particular cases.
In other words, art requires subjectivity and leaves purported objectivity to science.
Even more, participants made deliberate reference to their own (purported) political loyalties to strengthen the legitimacy of their actions.
Thus, the theory both predicts and purports to explain an association between these two variables.