The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.
Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification
Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.
Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.
The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.
Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.
Even if you don't like colours, you will end up having something red. For everyone who doesn't like colour, red is a symbol of a lot of culture. It has a different signification but never a bad one.
Singularity' goes through a process of purification and signification. If you listen to it, you can hear quite a chaotic and disruptive beginning and by the end, you're in such an opposite zone.
Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the reader is quite as vital as the author.
Marriage is divine in its institution, sacred in its union, holy in the mystery, sacramental in its signification, honourable in its appellative, religious in its employments: it is advantage to the societies of men, and it is "holiness to the Lord.
MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest contribution to the development of our language.
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman.