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purported

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pur·port·ed  (pr-pôrtd, -pr-)
adj.
Assumed to be such; supposed: the purported author of the story.

pur·ported·ly adv.


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Then we called at the tomb of Mahomet's children and at a tomb which purported to be that of St.
The Doctor occupied two floors of a large stiff house, where several callings purported to be pursued by day, but whereof little was audible any day, and which was shunned by all of them at night.
Stories which purported to reproduce the life of the Past were not unknown in England in the seventeenth century, but the real beginning of the historical novel and romance belongs to the later part of the eighteenth century.
 
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