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Definition of Connote

1. Verb. Express or state indirectly.

2. Verb. Involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic. "Solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well"

Definition of Connote

1. v. t. To mark along with; to suggest or indicate as additional; to designate by implication; to include in the meaning; to imply.

Definition of Connote

1. Verb. (transitive) To signify beyond its literal or principal meaning. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To possess an inseparable related condition; to imply as a logical consequence. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) To express without overt reference; to imply ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) To require as a logical predicate to consequence ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Connote

1. to imply another meaning besides the literal one [v -NOTED, -NOTING, -NOTES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Connote

connoisseurial connoisseurs connoisseurship connoisseuse connoisseuses connotate connotated connotates connotating connotation

connotational connotations connotative connotative of(p) connotatively connote (current term) connoted connotes connoting conns

connubial connubialism connubialisms connubialities connubiality connubially connumeration connumerations connusance connusances

Literary usage of Connote

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Composition: Eight Lectures Given at the Lowell Institute by Barrett Wendell (1891)
"... that such choice and composition of the elements as shall best connote our emotion is what Force demands ; and that such choice and composition of the ..."

2. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted: To by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"Vf, 3 Bl. Com. 167-174: 7 Encyc. 56 : ENTRY : OUSTER. Semble, to " intrude " into a Parish, does not connote going to dwell there (R. v. Willats, 7 QB 516; ..."

3. The Maryland Medical Recorder by Horatio Gates Jameson (1831)
"This admitted, we know that these connote signs, being excited by ... Now if the connote signs are obviously precedent to the occasional signs, ..."

4. Thomas Wolsey, Legate and Reformer: Legate and Reformer by Ethelred Luke Taunton (1902)
"... Reformation" a bad-sounding word—It does not connote immorality —Need for reform—A natural effect—Human nature—The Black Death—The Civil Wars—Reforming ..."

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