signification

IPA: sˈɪgnʌfʌkˈeɪʃʌn

noun

  • The act of signifying, or something that is signified; significance.
  • Evidence for the existence of something.
  • A meaning of a word.
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Examples of "signification" in Sentences

  • Both get a signification number of google hits.
  • Hardware signification of alignment requirements.
  • I still wonder about the signification of the analogy.
  • As to their signification, opinions are hopelessly divergent.
  • The signification is conveyed by some word, phrase, or action.
  • As you know, there is a sexual signification in the act of donating.
  • He had signification of taking a role in the liberation of Missouri.
  • As words convert to waves, their very signification is what gets left behind.
  • However, supposition was a different semantic relationship than signification.
  • Now since it removes that sense, the signification of the words is not changed.
  • Is there anyone who is able to find what is the signification of this abreviation
  • Beza himself confesseth, that beyond Jordan, is the proper signification of the Greek word beyond, Matthew 4: 15.
  • This double signification is possible because of Las Casas's contested status in Britain as an icon for abolitionists.
  • The minute end of the scale of signification is limited only by the limits of his perception, the minutest of graphic particulars that his graver could carve or his pen could write.
  • James Francis Edward, who called himself James the Third, and whom his opponents called the Pretender, by a translation which gave an injurious signification to the French word "pretendant."
  • - The patrons of the Egyptian origin of the sacred name appeal to the common Egyptian formula, Nuk pu nuk but though its literal signification is “I am I”, its real meaning is “It is I who” …
  • The differential system that rules out voice from the byplay of linguistic signification is therefore an oscillatory mechanism through which voice itself may seem to stage its phantom evanescent renewal.
  • Pillar, Plain Of The or rather "oak of the pillar" (that being the real signification of the Hebrew word elon), a tree which stood near Shechem and at which the men of Shechem and the house of Millo assembled to crown Abimelech the son of Gideon.
  • More often, though, we participate in signification less self-consciously, more by elective affiliation, with much less formal expectations and obligations; in so doing, we float along with the significations made available by mass culture and socially-dominant institutions.
  • For Blake the unit of signification can be anything along a sliding analogical scale of the particulars of textual production: from the whole of a published, finished copy down to the smallest drops of ink and finest of etched marks, Blake's vision of signification is like a great chain of reading with every link forged as it is perceived by the reader.

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