signification
Example Sentences
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“All of these significations are based in black musical — if not political — culture and their intersections,” Hayes said.
From Washington Post • Aug. 22, 2018
Richard Gilman can be granted his central point: "that 'decadence' is an unstable word and concept whose significations and weights continually change in response to shifts in morals, social, and cultural attitudes, and even technology."
From Time Magazine Archive
A, B, C have, in the two cases respectively, metrical significations; but these we are not concerned with.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
It shows an intimate and comprehensive acquaintance with the language, and a nice discrimination between the significations of words having a greater or less similarity of meaning.
From Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Döderlein, Ludwig
They had to the servants two distinct significations.
From Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other by Inman, Thomas
