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US
/ˈpɝvˌju/
]
[ UK /pˈɜːvjuː/ ]
[ UK /pˈɜːvjuː/ ]
NOUN
-
the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated
It is beyond the horizon of present knowledge
How To Use purview In A Sentence
- Whatever additional value they may have as companions, from this perspective, is beyond the purview of the law to address.
- The force module construct for opening airbases is designed around five phases, which fall under Air Force purview, as identified in the list below.
- A purlieu is a familiar or outlying place; a purview is a range or scope. Languagehat.com: BEAT THE JUDGE.
- Important spheres of local public life fell outside of the purview of most scholarly narratives.
- One is that ‘every human action takes place within the purview of moral judgment.’
- Lucky, for once, to hold a real world object in the purview of your self-substantiation, the speeding taxi, super-fly, armor-plated insect god can only act as mirror in the beading rain, cancelling out any offer of assurance. The Mockingbird Sings
- In Australia, both roles remain within the nursing purview.
- Instead of opening up new possibilities for rich and multi-faceted interaction with events once distant from the purview of most individuals, the abolition of distance tended to generate a “uniform distanceless” in which fundamentally distinct objects became part of a bland homogeneous experiential mass (Heidegger, 1971 [1950]: Globalization
- The film points out that these novels were written by a man who had never been to America, and links Hitler to him as also a man who had no experience of cultures outside his purview.
- But I don't think it's within the purview of the commission to get into that.