Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To denote; signify.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Archaic To mark off; to denote.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic To mark off; to
denote .
Etymologies
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Latin denotatus ("marked"), past participle of denoto ("I mark, I observe").
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You meant the word to denotate someone you think was being irrational, the word very much connotates a female-specific irrationality.
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