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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
connote \con*note"\ (k[o^]n*n[=o]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{connoted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {connoting}.] [See {connotate},
and {cote}.]
1. To mark along with; to suggest or indicate as additional;
to designate by implication; to include in the meaning; to
imply.
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Good, in the general notion of it, connotes also a
certain suitableness of it to some other thing.
--South.
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2. (Logic) To imply as an attribute.
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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.
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