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connote v. t. (past & past part. connoted; pres. part. connoting)

To mark along with; to suggest or indicate as additional; to designate by implication; to include in the meaning; to imply. "Good, in the general notion of it, connotes also a certain suitableness of it to some other thing."

(Logic) To imply as an attribute. "The word "white" denotes all white things, as snow, paper, the foam of the sea, etc., and ipmlies, or as it was termed by the schoolmen, connotes, the attribute "whiteness.""

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Etymology of 'Connote'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... as the coloured metallic salts. He suggests that the term "quinone" theory be abandoned, and replaced by the Umlagerungs theory, since this term implies some intermolecular rearrangement, and does not connote simply benzenoid compounds as does "quinonoid." H. von Liebig (Ann., 1908, 360, p. 128), from a very complete discussion of triphenyl-methane derivatives, concluded ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 - "Chtelet" to "Chicago" • Various

... trying to sneer into disuse all walking the world over, or one who was paunched by fat living beyond carrying power, larding the lean earth, fearing lest he sweat himself to death, some Falstaff who unbuttons him after supper and sleeps on benches after noon. Rather these words should connote the strong, the self-reliant, the youthful. He is a tramp, we should say, who relies most on his own legs and resources, who least cushions himself daintily against jar in his neighbor's tonneau, ...

— Journeys to Bagdad • Charles S. Brooks

Words linked to "Connote" : express, imply, evince