Definition of "purporting" []

• Present participle of purport. (verb)

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• "Would you at least grant that it was not a coincidence that the husband, in purporting to respond to a request by the mother for photographs, happened to send her pictures of the daughter “on the day of her Baptism”?"
• "It is the Vogon poetry of the modern office environment (and beyond), except that in purporting to convey important information, it lacks the rousing charm of nonsense for the sake of nonsense."
• "In Washington (10/13): (BURLINGTON)- Police warn Burlington residents that automated phone calls purporting to be from Skagit State Bank and asking for “security pass codes” are fraudulent."