signifying
Origin of signifying
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- un·sig·ni·fy·ing, adjective
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How to use signifying in a sentence
David Foster Wallace even named a chapter in his tome Brief Interviews with Hideous Men “signifying Nothing.”
James Franco and Scott Haze on 'The Sound and the Fury' and Gawker 'Outing' Them As A 'Couple' | Marlow Stern | September 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was a cosmic rout, signifying the end of an order, even the death of Spanish football as it is currently played.
Dutch Treat: The Netherlands Sinks Spain In World Cup 2014 | Tunku Varadarajan | June 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe city roiled with place names signifying race trouble: Bensonhurst, Howard Beach, the Central Park Jogger, Crown Heights.
The Cost: What Stop and Frisk Does to a Young Man’s Soul | Rilla Askew | May 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSo instead, Republican senators have launched an attack on Hagel filled with sound and fury but signifying very little.
If the Arabs had just accepted Zionism (signifying their own dispossession), then World War II might have turned out differently.
It is not simply acquiescing in that Covenant in the heart, but signifying that acquiescence in a positive service.
The Ordinance of Covenanting | John CunninghamThe prophet sends chains to divers kings, signifying that they must bend their necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousThe acceptance of a bill is the signifying by the drawee that he has assented to the drawer's order, and must be in writing.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesBearo, first signifying the grove itself, might easily come to mark the shelter which the grove afforded.
These streams are also variously interpreted as signifying the four evangelists, and the four rivers of paradise.
The Catacombs of Rome | William Henry Withrow
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