Example sentences for: signification

How can you use “signification” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

  • Henry Mason, an Anglican priest writing in the early 17 th century, points out that in traditional Protestant and Catholic ethics "if there be just cause for concealing of a truth," one may use words in a "less known and common signification, and in another meaning than it is likely the hearers will understand them."

  • As early as 1806 the word was used with apparent sexual signification by Thomas Malthus, the parson and economist who is remembered for his Essay on the Principle of Population: “An illicit intercourse between the sexes.”


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