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  • Cryptic Connotation of the Term "Law Enforcement" yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Cryptic Connotation of the Term "Law Enforcement"'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control.

    Cryptic Connotation of the Term "Law Enforcement" 2009

  • Connotation was described above in terms of primary and secondary signification.

    William of Ockham Spade, Paul Vincent 2006

  • Connotation comes from current usage, not from some unchanging ur-meaning inherent in characters from their earliest existence.

    languagehat.com: CHINESE 'JEW.' 2005

  • Connotation is at least as important as denotation, especially in online discourse.

    Responses to Real Manhood 2004

  • Testament Connotation dare not yet be laid into the expression.

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

  • Connotation -- that is, according to what they imply as characteristic of the things denoted.

    Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

  • What connection is there between the Connotation and the Relativity of Names?

    Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

  • Connotation determined by the _suppositio_ (p. 43) §5.

    Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

  • He's also found a further refinement in his improvising: at places, among all the displays of study and practice, he's able to detach from a song's chord changes and the rhythm and play more freely, in a manner that suggests Paul Bley or Ornette Coleman whose melody for "Blues Connotation" he keeps gesturing toward in "The Bucket Kicker".

    NYT > Home Page By JON PARELES 2011

  • "Ex-Swift Boaters 'Donations and the' Swiftboating 'Connotation":

    The Moderate Voice 2009

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