denote vs connote
denote
Definitions
verb
- make known; make an announcement
- have as a meaning
- be a sign or indication of
Examples
Calis, and so on the mondaie following, [Sidenote: Iohn Hall executed.] he was drawne from the Tower to Tiburne, and there hanged, bowelled, headed, and quartered: his head being sent to Calis there to be set vp, where the duke was murthered.
Rome created the word that denotes this marvellous and monstrous phenomenon, of history, the enormous city, the deceitful source of life and death -- _urbs_ -- _the city_.
The term can also denote a FIRM.
connote
Definitions
verb
- involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic
- express or state indirectly
Examples
A word that terrifies many fair-minded editors is terrorist; it connotes criminality.
He embarks on a semantics lecture, suggesting the term “shelter” sends the wrong meaning: “The word connotes impermanency.
Their very name connotes hope, and engagement with the culture around them.
