Connoting

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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