purport
verb (formal)- purport to be/have something
to claim to be something or to have done something, when this may not be true synonym profess自称;标榜 Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘express, signify’): from Old French purporter, from medieval Latin proportare, from Latin pro- ‘forth’ + portare ‘carry, bear’. The sense ‘appear to be’ dates from the late 18th cent.