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denotative

[dee-noh-tey-tiv, dih-noh-tuh-tiv] / ˈdi noʊˌteɪ tɪv, dɪˈnoʊ tə tɪv /


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The denotative meanings of these abbreviations vary over a wide range.

From The Guardian • Jun. 6, 2013

Besides their use in illustrating the denotative force of propositions, these circles may be employed to verify the results of Obversion, Conversion, and the secondary modes of Immediate Inference.

From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth

This method of delimiting a meaning by calling out a certain attitude toward objects may be called denotative or indicative.

From How We Think by Dewey, John

It finds that "reality" is a denotative term, a word used to designate indifferently everything that happens.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

To use the phraseology of Harvard and Radcliffe, the Sulphite is connotative, the Bromide denotative.

From Are You a Bromide? The Sulphitic Theory Expounded and Exemplified According to the Most Recent Researches into the Psychology of Boredom Including Many Well-Known Bromidioms Now in Use by Burgess, Gelett




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