Purvey vs. Purveyor — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Purvey and Purveyor
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Purvey
To supply or sell (food, for example).
Purveyor
One that furnishes or sells something, especially food.
Purvey
To seek to disseminate
Ideas purveyed by political extremists.
Purveyor
One that promulgates something
A purveyor of lies.
Purvey
To prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision.
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Purveyor
Someone who supplies what is needed, especially food.
The merchants are the purveyors of fine selections.
Purvey
(transitive) To furnish or provide.
Purveyor
An officer who provided provisions for the king's household.
Purvey
(transitive) To procure; to get.
Purveyor
(obsolete) A procurer; a pimp.
Purvey
To furnish or provide, as with a convenience, provisions, or the like.
Give no odds to your foes, but do purveyYourself of sword before that bloody day.
Purveyor
One who provides victuals, or whose business is to make provision for the table; a victualer; a caterer.
Purvey
To procure; to get.
I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin.
Purveyor
An officer who formerly provided, or exacted provision, for the king's household.
Purvey
To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision.
Purveyor
A procurer; a pimp; a bawd.
Purvey
To pander; - with to.
Purveyor
Someone who supplies provisions (especially food)
Purvey
Supply with provisions
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