Economy in denotation and connotation can prohibit thought as well as promote it.
They care about grammar, syntax, usage, denotation, connotation, etymology.
One connotation of the term is that the imbalance must be really serious or exceptional.
I use the word in its connotation of an unimpaired or uncorrupted state of affairs.
For Reginfo, the top horizontal line with the curvilinear arrow bears the same connotation as one of the implications of the quartered circle.
I am referring to a well-defined phenomenon with this term, which as such carries no disparaging connotation whatsoever.
Lithuanian often makes use of diminutives to soften the connotation of words or make them more personal.
However, cheap carries with it the connotation of low quality and low performance.
I kind of thought it sounded gothic or it had some kind of black metal connotation to it.
The noun is designed to unite and give a positive connotation to people who do not have religious or spiritual beliefs.
Like his other performance work, the idea is elegantly simple and full of connotation.
In this sense, discipline can carry a sadomasochistic connotation of role-play in the interest of pleasure.
Ostensibly neutral, each of these words has a positive connotation in the American political lexicon.
When our words lose the ability to convey an ethical connotation they become sterile and worthless.
Of course, the former are never referred to as overdeveloped, for to do so would indicate a negative connotation.
Besides the religious connotation of the festival, it is seen as a time for revelry.
But, given the creative skills and imagination of our tinsel town copywriters, the word takes a different connotation altogether.
Thus the word carries a connotation of some physical use of the property by the tenant for the purposes of his business.
The use of Chapter VII carries no connotation other than that it makes this resolution binding.
In the past the word had a somewhat negative connotation, for a gaucho was considered a vagabond or an expert trickster.
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Today the term rhetoric is generally used to refer only to the form of argumentation, often with the pejorative connotation that rhetoric is a means of obscuring the truth.
An orgy of groping and fumbling, and no sexual connotation left untouched.
In the Millian view, proper names have denotation, but not connotation.
In these cases, the connotation is relied upon more than the denotation.
For some, the word power has a negative connotation and implies control, force or undue influence.
The word policy has a connotation of activities being closely controlled by Brussels.
The racial descriptor does not seem to have originated as a pejorative, but acquired a negative connotation over time.
Education is, in this essential connotation of the word, a quest for that most outstanding of possessions: self-mastery.
However, unlike a voice print, a thumbprint carries with it a negative connotation, given its association with the criminal process.
Be assured, however, that the host used this language in a caricatured fashion without any connotation of real hate, racism or hostility.
There is truly a problem there, and a connotation of political intervention in a bill for which we had high hopes.
First, the term 'terrorism' contains a normative connotation and is difficult to define, which poses a number of problems in and of itself.
The word 'intolerable' was so strong that by its very meaning and connotation it set the hurdle high.
Eutrophication: eutrophication of an aquatic environment originally refers to its becoming richer in nutrients, with no negative connotation.
Today, the fight against social exclusion has a more evident political connotation than in the past.
There is always the connotation in a bailout that it is some kind of a waste of government money.
Others gave it a considerably more restrictive connotation limited to profit-making enterprises.
The word home, for instance, by denotation means only a place where one lives, but by connotation it suggests security, love, comfort, and family.
Filmmaker Lauren Greenfield examines the negative connotation of the phrase and turns it into an affirmation.
But that has never struck me as terribly apt or helpful, despite its obviously negative connotation.
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Together look up the derivation, the connotation, any prefixes and suffixes for the word, the root, the spelling rules that apply and the various meanings.
For us, the word 'abroad' still has a connotation of misery.
Find the elements in denotation and connotation.
Today the term hostage has a different connotation than it did for the Ancient Romans, which is shown in the examples above.
The term has no definite legal connotation, but is used in law to refer to United Kingdom citizenship and matters to do with nationality.
There is little indication of any negative connotation in the term before the end of the Viking Age.
The latter is sometimes referred to with another term, which has a subtly different connotation, Postmodern art.
The connotation of tabloid was soon applied to other small compressed items.
Embracing it for this protest connotation, the Dutch Socialist party adopted the tomato as their logo.
For young people these centres receive a vocational connotation in listening to the Word that calls, in catechesis and in prayer lived in a more personal and involved, and free and creative way.
It has sort of this blue-blooded connotation to it.
The settlement date connotation refers to Eurosystem business days.
The voids on display are positive and constructive in connotation.
It first became common with its current sense in Great Britain, during the 1870s and was used with a negative connotation.
In Poland, such provocativeness has a social connotation, as an attempt to rock the psychic boat, overbalancing unthinking, automatic religiosity.
Queers strategically readopted the term by reversing the negative connotation attached to it to a positive one.
Print media, there's a real negative connotation.
The laudatory connotation of a word mark does not mean that it cannot be appropriate for the purposes of guaranteeing to consumers the origin of the goods or services which it covers.
Has a connotation of dark magic, as do jinxes, but of a minor sort.
Some argue that it conveys a negative connotation of a timeless unchanging past.
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Among the synonyms for dialect, the word idiom refers to any kind of dialect, or even language, whereas patois, a term from French, denotes rural or provincial dialects, often with a deprecatory connotation.
Since ballerino is not used in English, it does not enjoy the same connotation as ballerina.
Closely related to state churches are ecclesiae, which are similar but carry a more minor connotation.
During this time the use of opium had little negative connotation and was used freely until 1882 when a law was passed to confine opium smoking to specific dens.
The exonym was later adopted by the Greeks, with a similar connotation.
Soul and 'Seele' are related to Old High German 'sela', supposed to have a connotation with 'see', since both the unborn and the dead were believed to dwell in water.
There is also connotation as an image of events, products and meetings.
The term ignoble savage has an obvious negative connotation.
In modern period, the Migration Period was increasingly described with a rather negative connotation and tribes' contribution to the fall of Rome was more and more underlined.
Then this theological expression loses its exhortative connotation, which remains inserted into a binary scheme, and acquires an ontological meaning.
The positive connotation is the contribution the results of privatisation would make to Indonesia's image as a good debitor, paying overseas debts according to schedule.
Its revival and widespread use in the 19th Century therefore had a clear Danish nationalist connotation of laying a claim to the territory and objecting to the German claims.

For the denotation may be increased in a sense without affecting the connotation.
Kala is as nearly as possible barbarian, and has a connotation of contempt.
Such a circumstance, if not derivable from the connotation, is called an Accident.
The history of the title in this connotation is somewhat obscure.
Here there is no question of atmosphere, of suggestion, of connotation.
At any rate, if the etymology is false, the connotation is true.
The origin of the word in this connotation is somewhat complicated.
The larger the connotation the smaller the denotation, and vice vers.
Karleen Dee decided that society's view of singleness missed the mark, and that this negative connotation of singleness was wrong.
But, away from vulgar argumentativeness, the concept of Levantism could have had a decent connotation.
Woman that adventured were adventuresses, and the connotation was not nice.
They had been diverted from their hereditary connotation to signify impressions for which Nature did not intend them.
This soubriquet has become the primary business perception in the US and European markets but has a negative connotation as a symbol of cheap and low-end products.

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