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connoting


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  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. 




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