denotative
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The denotative meanings of these abbreviations vary over a wide range.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 6, 2013
The only way in which the term reality can ever become more than a blanket denotative term is through recourse to specific events in all their diversity and thatness.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
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 John Dewey
From this eternal word, which is of the nature of the sphota and possesses denotative power, there is produced the object denoted, i.e. this world which consists of actions, agents, and results of action.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 by George Thibaut
The workings of my thought thus determine both its denotative and its connotative significance more fully.
From Meaning of Truth by William James
Vocabulary lists containing denotative
Reading: Literature - High School
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Lesson 7
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Part 3 Literary Terms (Unit 3)
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