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The meaning's word essentially belongs to its meaning.
Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes. 2005
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It means having committed oneself fully to a course of action or, alternatively, committing to the use of force within your own country, but I don't think that meaning's on the table here.
Friday TV notes yendi 2006
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Wit's forge and fire-blast, meaning's press and screw. ''
On Donne's Poetry 1927
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Wit's forge and fire-blast, meaning's press and screw.
Poems of Coleridge Arthur Symons 1905
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Contrary to this, there should be some real prayer, prayer for the meaning's sake, and not for the shell of religious decency in which the semblance may be kept.
Christian Nurture. 1802-1876 1876
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"Well, well, child, the meaning's about the same," returned Miss Stanhope, laughing afresh at her own mistake, "and I'd as soon be the other as one."
Elsie's Womanhood Martha Finley 1868
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Wit's forge and fire-blast, meaning's press and screw.
Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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Environmentalists in the U.S. use "green jobs" to mean that, too, but I don't think that meaning's stuck.
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The meaning's clear: aim for more compact development.
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- Kiarostami's contribution to the 2007 portmanteau, Chacun son cinéma - and his 2008 multimedia installation, Looking at Tazieh, this is a masterly variation on the 1920s Kuleshov experiment that demonstrated filmic meaning's heavy dependence upon context.
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