denotative
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The denotative meanings of these abbreviations vary over a wide range.
From The Guardian • Jun. 6, 2013
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
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
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 Thibaut, George
A term's denotative function is, to be the name or sign of something or some multitude of things, which are said to be called or denoted by the term.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth
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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