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Purview   /pˈərvjˌu/   Listen
Purview

noun
1.
The range of interest or activity that can be anticipated.  Synonyms: horizon, view.






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"Purview" Quotes from Famous Books



... will not be furnished to the powers at Washington for any such use or purpose as they have in view. Your object is to subjugate the Southern States, and a requisition made upon me for such an object—an object, in my judgment, not within the purview of the Constitution or the Act of 1795 —will not be complied with. You have chosen to inaugurate Civil War, and having done so, we will meet it in a spirit as determined as the Administration has ...
— The Great Conspiracy, Complete • John Alexander Logan

... magazine, writes, much as Disraeli orated, of "the sublime instincts of an ancient people," the certainty with which they can be trusted to manage their own affairs in their own way, and the speed with which they are making for all sorts of desirable goals. This he called a statement or purview of ...
— American Notes • Rudyard Kipling

... with the expression of a doubt whether any action of a state not directed by way of discrimination against the negroes as a class, or on account of their race, would ever be held to come within the purview of the provision in question.1 The chief justice and three of his associates dissented from the judgment, holding that the XIVth Amendment did protect the citizens of the United States against the deprivation of their common rights by state legislation.2 Public ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... master, is a direct violation of the Divine law, and, when committed by a member of the church, ought to subject him to censure"—you undertake to make your readers believe, that Paul's sending Onesimus to Philemon, is a case coming fairly within the purview of the resolution. Let us see if it does. A man by the name of Onesimus was converted to Christianity, under Paul's ministry at Rome. Paul learnt that he had formerly been a servant—say a slave—of Philemon, who was a ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... much to say that studies in the physiological, the psychological, the sociological, and the allied fields necessarily lack completeness if they do not bring into their purview the data of their common historical record traced as far back as it is found to contain intimations ...
— College Teaching - Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College • Paul Klapper



Words linked to "Purview" :   ambit, view, reach, orbit, range, scope, compass



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