1purport, significance, meaning, that which is conveyed in a document:
(
c.1260;
MS: c.1275
)
solum le purport de nostre escrit
112
(
1377
)
le Pape doune benefices encontre la purport de la tretee susdit
iii 19
(
1392-93
)
salonc la pourport de ceste peticion
69
(
1390-1412;
MS: s.xv1
)
faire execucion du dit brief selonc le purport d’icel
2.10
purport (c.1260)