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Definition of Signifying
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Signifying
Literary usage of Signifying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson (1857)
"For although the word signifying remission have one sense among many other which
may seem proper for this particular concernment, yet because the same word ..."
2. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"Verbs signifying to support, endure ordinarily take the present participle; ...
With verbs signifying to do well or ill, to surpass or be inferior, ..."
3. Crabb's English Synonyms by George Crabb (1917)
"Reprove, in French réprouver, Latin reprobo, is compounded of the privative
syllable re and probo, signifying to find the contrary of good, that is, ..."
4. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"In art, signifying royalty. In metale it is represented by quicksilver. ...
/я modern art or signifying Jealousy. Inconstancy, incontinence, in Prance the ..."
5. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, Connecticut Council, Council of Safety (Conn.)., James Hammond Trumbull, Charles Jeremy Hoadly (1877)
"... 1754,* therein signifying that his Majesty in his royal consideration has
thought proper, for the defence of his just rights and dominions in North ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"ETHEL, an Old English word signifying noble, eminent, not only in blood or by
descent, but in mind. It is frequently a part of Anglo-Saxon proper names. ..."
7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... a term signifying in the United States, (1) a list of the entire expenses of
the civil government, (2) the revenue appropriated to support civil ..."
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