purview

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
18
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈpɜː(ɹ)vjuː/

Definition of purview

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. The enacting part of a statute.
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noun

  1. The enacting part of a statute.
  2. The scope of a statute.
  3. Scope or range of interest or control.
    “Will it be said that the fundamental principles of the Confederation were not within the purview of the convention, and ought not to have been varied?”
    “Rhetorical relations have truth conditional effects that contribute to meaning but lie outside the purview of compositional semantics.”
    “Several air marshals have asked Congress to remove the program from T.S.A.’s purview and entrust it to a different agency, like Customs and Border Protection or the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”
    “It was 2015 when Jain—whose purview includes commissioning new series, acquiring the rights to foreign hits, and publicly answering for any perceived misdeeds of ITV—set out to overhaul the tepidly received Celebrity Love Island, a 12-person British popularity contest and ostensible matchmaker that disappeared after two seasons.”
  4. Range of understanding.
    “Our company were noisy, gay, quarrelsome, full of facile theories, with glib explanations of everything, persuaded that there is nothing they could not understand and no human destiny outside the purview of their system.”

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Etymology

From Middle English purveu (“proviso”), from Anglo-Norman purveu est (“it is provided”), or purveu que (“provided that”) (statutory language), from Old French porveü (“provided”), past participle of porveoir (“to provide”), from Latin prōvideō (see provide). Influenced by view and its etymological antecedents.

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