denote vs connote
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.
Most often, ˜non-naturalism™ denotes the metaphysical thesis that moral properties exist and are not identical with or reducible to any natural property or properties in some interesting sense of ˜natural™.
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_.
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.
