Even some abstracts are connotative, for attributes may have attributes ascribed to them, and a word which denotes attributes may connote an attribute of them; e.
They connote both the absence of certain attributes, and the presence of others, whence the presence of the defaulting ones might have been expected.
Thus, all propositions with abstract terms can be turned into equivalent ones with concrete, the new terms being either the names which connote the attributes, or names of the facts which are the fundamenta of the attributes: e.
The using a name to connote attributes, turns the things, whether real or imaginary, into a class.
But does not immediate presence connote relativity and inadequacy, at best; an initial phase of knowledge that must be supplemented and corrected before objective reality and valid truth are apprehended?
Does not the individuality of the individual thinker connote the very maximum of error?
If all of reality is finally reducible to sensations, then the term sensation must be used in a new sense to connote a self-subsistent being, and can no longer refer merely to a function of certain physiological processes.
If we select from several languages words which are identical in denotation, we are likely to find that, because of their difference in sound, they connote different phases of the idea which they contain.
These words were not intended to connote a quantitative equality.
These details communicated to the document a certain air of freshness, they seemed to connote that the peasants in question had lived but yesterday.
That condition of things would not seem toconnote degeneracy or decadence.
But if, as is in fact the case, the word man does not connote mortality, how does it appear that in the mind of every person who admits Socrates to be a man, the idea of man must include the idea of mortality?
The more usual mode of declaring the connotation of a name, is to predicate of it another name or names of known signification, which connote the same aggregation of attributes.
From the fact that the genus includes the species, in other words denotes more than the species, or is predicable of a greater number of individuals, it follows that the species must connote more than the genus.
The contrivance of general language furnishing us with terms which connotethese conditions, we are able to assert this indefinite multitude of truths in a single expression, and this expression is the general theorem.
It must connote all the attributes which the genus connotes, or there would be nothing to prevent it from denoting individuals not included in the genus.
They can not, indeed, be said to connotethe same attribute: to be a father, is not the same thing as to be a son.
Man, therefore, must connote all that animal connotes, otherwise there might be men who are not animals; and it must connote something more than animal connotes, otherwise all animals would be men.
By a predicative sign I will mean a proposition, or the conceptual apposition of two denominative terms, expressive of the speaker’s intention to connotesomething of the one by means of the other.
The names of feelings, like other concrete general names, are connotative; but they connote a mere resemblance.
And it must connote something besides, otherwise it would include the whole genus.
They cannot, indeed, be said to connote the same attribute: to be a father, is not the same thing as to be a son.
The names called privative, therefore, connote two things: the absence of certain attributes, and the presence of others, from which the presence also of the former might naturally have been expected.
If the defects are natural imperfections of soul or body that do not connote moral stain or turpitude, and if no great detriment is caused by revelation (e.
A term is said to connote attributes, when it implies certain attributes at the same time that it applies to certain things distinct therefrom.
A term must already denote a subject before it can be said to connote its attributes.
Privative Terms connote the absence of a quality that normally belongs to the kind of thing denoted, as 'blind' or 'deaf.
Thus 'whiteness' may be considered to connote either snow or vapour, or any white thing, apart from one or other of which the quality has no existence; whose existence therefore it implies.
But whether all terms must connote as well as denote something, has been much debated.
But if abstract terms must be made to connote something, should it not be those things, indefinitely suggested, to which the qualities belong?
Our English has changed with the years so that many words now connote more than they did originally.
Suggestive expressions connote more than they literally say--they suggest ideas and pictures to the mind of the hearer which supplement the direct words of the speaker.
Roughly, it may be said that all names connote their bearers, and them only.
The subcastes, however, connote no real difference of status or occupation.
Language must apparently have begun by pointing at animals or plants and making some sound, probably at first an imitation of the cry or other characteristic of the animal, which came to connote it.
Neither, on the whole, is his disappearance to be desired, for it would almost certainly connote the composition of somewhat vapid and colourless histories.
They can connote only the ethic of the life conditions of the worshipper.
I shall connote with Ivy and her maidens, not only Mother Eve, but also the clearly fabulous St. Ive.
At the south-eastern extremity of Dhia is a colossal spike, peak, or pier, entitled Cape Apiri, and we may connote Apiri with the Iberian town named Ipareo.
We shall connote Britannia, whose first official portraits are here given, with the Cretan Goddess Britomart, which meant in Greek "sweet maiden".
The Kate Kennedy still commemorated at St. Andrews we shall subsequentlyconnote with Conneda and with Caindea.
The highest town in France, and the principal arsenal and depot of the French Alps is entitled Briancon, and as this place was known to the Romans as Brigantium, we may connote Briancon with King Brian.
Apart from recent experiences and the records of the Saxon invaders of this country, one mayconnote the candid maxims of the Frederick upon whom the German nation has thought proper to confer the sobriquet of "Great," e.
With the church of St. Just or Roodha, and with the Rodau of Rodau's Town neighbouring the Danejohn at Canterbury or Durovernum, we shall subsequently connote Rutland or Rutaland and the neighbouring Leicester, anciently known as Ratae.
Who or what "the dear bond" was is not explained, but we may connote the kindred surnames Goodbon, Goodbun, and Goodband.
As a matter of fact, they connote utterly different things.
They scarcely connote ideas of food management, or, if they do, it is only to the extent of inferring that food shall not be adulterated or of bad quality--and perhaps that there shall be enough of it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "connote" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
