Purview

Quick meaning: Purview is a noun meaning (law) The enacting part of a statute.

Meaning

(law) The enacting part of a statute.

More Meanings

1. (law) The scope of a statute.
2. Scope or range of interest or control.
3. Range of understanding.

Example Sentences

Rhetorical relations have truth conditional effects that contribute to meaning but lie outside the purview of compositional semantics.

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?

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.

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.

Word Forms

• purviews

Synonyms for purview

Depending on context, synonyms include responsibility, view, horizon.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include view, horizon, jurisdiction, dispositif, prerogative, supervision.

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