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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.
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.”
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."