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denotation|diːnəʊˈteɪʃən|
[ad. L. dēnōtātiōn-em, n. of action from dēnōtāre to denote. Cf. F. dénotation (15th c. in Hatzf.).]
1. The action of denoting; marking, noting; expression by marks, signs, or symbols; indication.
c1532G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 900 Dyuers wordes, whiche for denotation or signifycation of pluralite doth ende with an s. 1623Cockeram, Denotation, a marking, a noting. 1631G. Webbe Quietn. (1657) 12 A short denotation of that method which we will observe in the unfolding. 1659Pearson Creed (1839) 275 One who was called Ἐπώνυµος, because his name was used for the denotation of that year. 1803Ld. Eldon in Vesey's Rep. VI. 397 By that denotation of intention the Creditor has a double Fund. 1825Fosbroke Encycl. Antiq. (1843) I. 111 The idea of Julius Cæsar's building round towers out of vanity, in denotation of conquest, certainly prevailed in the middle ages.
2. (with a and pl.) A mark by which a thing is made known or indicated; a sign, indication.
1633Bp. Hall Hard. Texts, N.T. 97, I had no knowledge of him by any outward denotations. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 47 The thred tripartite hung about their neck as a mysterious denotation of the Trinity. a1650May Satir. Puppy (1657) 39 After many denotations of a troubled spirit, he charmed attention with this speech. 1837Whittock Bk. Trades (1842) 302 An assertion we are willing to credit as a denotation of effeminacy.
3. A term employed to denote or describe a thing; a designation.
1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 595 The Germans called an Esquire..knaue, a denotation of no ill qualitie in those dayes. 1644Hammond Of Conscience (T.), Mind and conscience are distinguished..that former being properly the denotation of the faculty merely speculative, or intellectual; this latter, of the practical judgement. 1659― On Ps. lxxxix. 12 Annot. 446 Being here a denotation of a particular quarter of the world. 1742Fielding J. Andrews i. xi, To indicate our idea of a simple fellow we say he is easily to be seen through; nor do I believe it a more improper denotation of a simple book.
4. The meaning or signification of a term.
1614Selden Titles Hon. 341 Time hath brought the word knaue to a denotation of ill qualities. 1692J. Edwards Further Enq. Texts O. & N.T. 35 But after all that I have said, concerning this so remarkable etymology and denotation of the word, I leave every one to his liberty. 1882Pall Mall G. 21 June 2 Can we limit the denotation of the term coffee to the produce of a certain berry? 1893F. Hall in Nation LVII. 450/1 The term ârya..may have a wider denotation than that which was long attached to it.
5. Logic. That which a word denotes, as distinguished from its connotation; the aggregate of objects of which a word may be predicated; extension. Cf. denote v. 5, connotation 2 b.
1843Mill Logic i. viii. §7 Stripping it of some part of its multifarious denotation, and confining it to objects possessed of some attributes in common, which it may be made to connote. 1866Fowler Deduct. Logic (1887) 22 The larger the denotation or extensive capacity, the smaller is the connotation or intensive capacity. 1870Rolleston Anim. Life Introd. 20 The quantitative relations which the corresponding divisions in almost any two of the animal sub-kingdoms hold to each other as wholes of ‘extension’ or of ‘denotation’.
Hence denoˈtational a.
1948B. Russell Human Knowl. 293 An example of a denotational definition is ‘the tallest man in the United States’. 1957in N. Frye Sound & Poetry 138 Word-repetition..repeats the..word..with the same denotational semantic spectrum. 1963J. Lyons Structural Semantics iii. 38 The advantage of taking the set of colour-terms..is that they are readily shown to..cover a well-defined ‘denotational field’. |