I was surprised to see that surrounding words in multiple parentheses, also called an "echo," remains common practice to denote something or someone as Jewish.
In many languages, vowels made with the back of the tongue, such as "o" and "ah," tend to appear in words that describe something big (boulder), whereas vowels made at the front of the mouth, such as "ee," often denote something smaller (flea).
Young people use the word "gay" to denote something that's lame, eccentric or risible.
(Most of these institutions are now called "universities" according to the new definition of what counts as such, viz that it has more than 4,000 students and awards "degrees" - this latter word being a homonym of a term that used to denote something rather different in quality and status.
The image of toothy open mouths - smiling or not - denote something - well something more predatory and sexual.
Hume evidently means to denote something beyond mere changes in the regular course of nature, raising the bar higher for something to qualify as a miracle but also raising the potential epistemic significance of such an event if it could be authenticated.
The word khayr is normally used to denote something that is good and beneficial.
If "Pegasus" denotes something, then "Pegasus does not exist" is false (by (4) above).
If "Pegasus" is meaningful, then "Pegasus" denotes something (by (3) above).
It was a cherished word that denoted something almost unattainable.
