Implied idea

Usage examples of connotation.

Testimony here assumes its broadest connotation as the exemplary affirmation of incontrovertible human and national values.

Peace was a value that in a short stretch of time had lost the humanist, Erasmian connotations that had previously made it the path of transformation.

We Are What We Revile or We Are What We Scurry Around As Fast As Possible With Our Eyes Averted, though when Schtitt mentions the motto he never attaches any moral connotation to it, or for that matter ever translates it, allowing prorectors and Big Buddies to adjust their translations to suit the needs of the pedagogical moment.

Whether Abstract Terms have any connotation is another disputed question.

After all, if it is the most consistent plan, why not say that abstract, like proper, terms have no connotation?

The matters which terms are used to denote are often so complicated or so refined in the assemblage, interfusion, or gradation of their qualities, that terms do not exist in sufficient abundance and discriminativeness to denote the things and, at the same time, to convey by connotation a determinate sense of their agreements and differences.

I have avoided using the word because of its Marxist connotations, connotations having absolutely no validity in ancient times.

She caught glimmerings of profounds inexpressible and unthinkable that hinted connotations lawless and terrible.

It expressed relationships exactly without unfortunate connotations or subconscious responses.

Tyrant, but Qubuc has connotations in your language that you may someday find entertaining.

The swamplike connotation of the name was usually completely lost on the humans, who thought the term a mere reference to their state of mind after but a few sips of the potent liquid.

Nobody connected with the Little Theatre quite liked to explain to Mrs Crundale that the breasts of several well-known young ladies of Salterton, though undoubtedly Planes, had other connotations, and could not fittingly be unveiled at a public performance.

And Saxon, glimpsing him sidewise, as he watched the horses and their way on the Sunday morning streets, checking them back suddenly and swerving to avoid two boys coasting across street on a toy wagon, saw in him deeps and intensities, all the magic connotations of temperament, the glimmer and hint of rages profound, bleaknesses as cold and far as the stars, savagery as keen as a wolf's and clean as a stallion's, wrath as implacable as a destroying angel's, and youth that was fire and life beyond time and place.

Van Vogt's prosaic nouns, 'ship', 'city', take on new connotations, like the nouns in the Tubb piece.

I am normally referred to as the Qu Swarm's Tyrant, but Qubuc has connotations in your language that you may someday find entertaining.