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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Connote \Con*note"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Connoted}; p. pr & vb n. {Connoting}.] [See {Connotate}, and {Note}.] 1. To mark along with to suggest or indicate as additional; to designate by implication; to include in the meaning; to imply. Good, in the general notion of it connotes also a certain suitableness of it to some other thing --South. 2. (Logic) To imply as an attribute. The word ``white'' denotes all white things as snow, paper, the foam of the sea, etc., and ipmlies, or as it was termed by the schoolmen, connotes, the attribute ``whiteness.'' --J. S. Mill. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: connote v 1: express or state indirectly [syn: {imply}] 2: involve as a necessary condition of consequence; in logic [syn: {predicate}]
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