signifying
Verb
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Verb
- present participle of signify#English|signify
- Macbeth (c. 1603), Act V, Scene V:
- Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
- that struts and frets his hour upon the stage
- and then is heard no more: it is a tale
- told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
- signifying nothing.
- Macbeth (c. 1603), Act V, Scene V:
signifying (plural signifyings)
- signification
- 1939, Coleman Roberts Griffith, Psychology Applied to Teaching and Learning
- For the sake of convenience, we may call these pointings or signifyings the secondary phase of meaning.
- 1939, Coleman Roberts Griffith, Psychology Applied to Teaching and Learning
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