The Collaborative International Dictionary
connote \con*note"\ (k[o^]n*n[=o]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. connoted; p. pr. & vb. n. connoting.] [See connotate, and cote.]
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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.
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(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.''
--J. S. Mill.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of connote English)
Usage examples of "connoting".
It caused Qaylinn's deep saffron robe to swirl about his bare feet, ruffled Ojime's oiled cotton and cured leather coat which was the color of indigo, connoting his senior rank within the Sekkan, the council of Bujun.