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What does purporting mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of purport
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Physics professors receive packages purporting to show how to build perpetual motion machines.
In the programme, former jockey Osborne was approached by people purporting to be considering buying a horse from him.
I am looking at a statute of a foreign Parliament purporting to intermeddle in our constitutional affairs.
Tunisia had promulgated a constitution in 1860, setting up a Supreme Council purporting to limit the powers of the monarchy.
The institution of marriage they are purporting to protect is an abstraction.
The person purporting to exercise his discretion has acted in abuse or excess of his power.

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