Man did not call lifeless things by names denoting sex because he regarded them as persons; he came to regard them as persons because he had already given them names connoting sex.
How did the first speakers of the human race come to be obliged to call lifeless things by names connoting sex, and therefore connoting, not only activity, but also life and personality?
But they belonged to the class of the undecided, whose members continually suffer from the absence of a middle word between yes and no, connoting what is neither positive nor negative.
This concession was attacked by many as connoting a departure from principle, but the deviation was more apparent than real, for under all the wrappings of idealistic catchwords lay the primeval doctrine of force.
Quoth implies a general name, a name for persons speaking, connoting or meaning a certain act and applicable to anybody in the performance of it.
Any word connoting a quality may be used to describe many very different things, as long as they agree in that quality.
It has been proposed, however, to regard them as connoting the qualities they directly stand for, and not denoting anything; but surely this is too violent.
All generalizations, and all general terms connoting them, are results brought together by association and comparison of particulars somehow resembling.
In fact, every word originally connoting simply existence, gradually enlarges its connotation to mean separate existence, i.
It might seem that the meaning of such names could only be declared in two ways; by a synonymous term, if any such can be found; or in the direct way already alluded to: “White is a name connoting the attribute whiteness.
In the following examples, the concrete terms are those which directly correspond to the abstract names; connoting the attribute which these denote.
Thus in our former example, All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal, the subject and predicate of the major premiss are connotative terms, denoting objects and connoting attributes.
It arises from the ambiguity of the copula, which, in addition to its proper office of a mark to show that an assertion is made, is also, as we have formerly remarked, a concrete word connoting existence.
When the positive name is connotative, the corresponding negative name is connotative likewise; but in a peculiar way, connoting not the presence but the absence of an attribute.
It is a term comprehending all that he includes under his nine last Categories; yet it is not a term connoting either generic communion, or even so much as analogical relation.
Because Plato recognized a substantive existence, corresponding to each common denominationconnoting likeness, apart from all the similar particulars denominated, e.
The Verb is distinguished from the Noun by connoting time, and also by always serving as predicate to some noun as subject.
For if we say that a child is connoting resemblances when it extends the name Bow-wow from a particular dog to dogs in general, clearly we must say the same thing of a parrot when we find that thus far it goes with the child.
The songs are sung with the idea that the repetition of words connoting a state of facts will have the effect of causing that state of facts to exist, in accordance with the belief already explained in the concrete virtue of words.
They had, of course, no words or ideas connoting life or consciousness, or distinguishing animals, vegetables or lifeless objects, and they were naturally quite incapable of distinguishing them.
It arises from the ambiguity of the copula, which, in addition to its proper office of a mark to show that an assertion is made, is also, as formerly remarked, a concrete word connoting existence.
Thus in our former example, All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal, the subject and predicate of the major premise are connotative terms, denoting objects and connoting attributes.
It might seem that the meaning of such names could only be declared in two ways; by a synonymous term, if any such can be found; or in the direct way already alluded to: "White is a name connoting the attribute whiteness.
The words "adultery" and "idolatry" are of related origin, each connoting the act of unfaithfulness and the turning away after false objects of affection or worship.
A proverb is a short, sententious saying, in the nature of a maxim, connoting a definite truth or suggestion by comparison.
By derivation it means Master or my Master, thus connoting dignity and rank associated with politeness of address.
Footnote 30: Aristotle adverts to this class of ethical epithets, connoting both an attribute in the person designated and an unfavourable sentiment in the speaker (Ethic.
The word may be defined asconnoting that whence all things proceed.
There is, however, another way of interpreting 'ought' as connoting penalties, which is somewhat less easy to meet by a crucial psychological experiment.
True, propositions of this sort can be expressed in a variety of ways connoting an endless number of more or less objectionable ideas, but this is the substance of the matter.
Now, suppose that Christian names connoting unpleasant things were sometimes conferred at baptisms.
Synecdoche, too, that figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, employs a term of higher suggestive power for one of lower connoting force.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "connoting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
