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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of connotate.

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Examples

  • For Josiah Childs 'outfit was all their actions connotated.

    THE PRODIGAL FATHER 2010

  • "Ignorant" is always a negatively-connotated word, but of course, all it means is that nobody's ever told them, so let me shed some light.

    Archive 2008-04-01 SVGL 2008

  • Any one could read her question and imagine her asking it in a snide, sly, uppity, snotty, etc, etc negatively connotated fashion, whether she meant it that way or not.

    Ann Aguirre » Blog Archive » Separation 2008

  • I found your observations very stimulating, especially the one on black women: it could lead to a discussion on how the racially connotated women lose their gender except for mail-order brides, maybe, how “asian people all look the same to me” etc.

    “MOST OF THE PEOPLE IN AMERICA ARE N——” » Sociological Images 2008

  • The British have contributed greatly to the nuanced and connotated ways in which we speak.

    Ten Things Tuesday: Expressions « The Life and Times of Organic Mama 2007

  • Predication by essence shows a partial identity between subject and predicate, which share some, but not all, metaphysical component parts, and does not require that the form connotated by the predicate-term be directly present in the essence denotated by the subject-term.

    William Penbygull Conti, Alessandro 2006

  • If the form connotated by the predicate-term is intrinsic to the nature of the subject, then the predication is a case of formal essential predication, while if it is extrinsic, the predication is a case of formal accidental predication.

    William Penbygull Conti, Alessandro 2006

  • On the other hand, the proposition identifies only one of these properties, that signified by the predicate-term (in our example the property of being white), which is formally different from the form of whitness connotated by the predicate-term.

    Paul of Venice Conti, Alessandro 2005

  • Also, as to the distinct meaning of the word: the institution itself is quite different in France from what it connotated? in Pushkin times in Tsarskoe Selo.

    languagehat.com: LITSEI/GIMNAZIYA. 2004

  • To his mind the word rompers connotated a garment extraneously smeared, as this one.

    Tales of the Jazz Age 2003

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