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Connotation was described above in terms of primary and secondary signification.
William of Ockham Spade, Paul Vincent 2006
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Connotation comes from current usage, not from some unchanging ur-meaning inherent in characters from their earliest existence.
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Connotation is at least as important as denotation, especially in online discourse.
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Testament Connotation dare not yet be laid into the expression.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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Connotation -- that is, according to what they imply as characteristic of the things denoted.
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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What connection is there between the Connotation and the Relativity of Names?
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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Connotation determined by the _suppositio_ (p. 43) §5.
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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He's also found a further refinement in his improvising: at places, among all the displays of study and practice, he's able to detach from a song's chord changes and the rhythm and play more freely, in a manner that suggests Paul Bley or Ornette Coleman whose melody for "Blues Connotation" he keeps gesturing toward in "The Bucket Kicker".
NYT > Home Page By JON PARELES 2011
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"Ex-Swift Boaters 'Donations and the' Swiftboating 'Connotation":
The Moderate Voice 2009
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