connoting

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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