CONNOTING

Verb

connoting

present participle of connote

Anagrams

• Conington

Source: Wiktionary


CONNOTE

Con*note", v. t. [imp. & p.p. Connoted; p.pr. & vb.n. Connoting.] Etym: [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)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.

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