Sentence examples for set of connotations from inspiring English sources

It's not easy to exchange one set of connotations for another.

Master for mistress; sir for madam; governor for governess; bachelor for spinster; courtier for courtesan – whereas the male list speaks of power and high status, the female list has a very different set of connotations.

This conceptual usage was transformed by different European thinkers throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, with the result that civil society came to acquire a rather different set of connotations.

If a woman is seeking a 'sugar daddy' (which has its own set of connotations) in her own city, she has a support network and options.

However, understood as part of the humanitarian vocabulary, with a specific trajectory and a specific set of connotations, "effectiveness" is not value-neutral.

In the South, as sharecropping was just dying out, jeans carried a different set of connotations.

The idea of a female wearing clothing of the opposite sex and the term crossdressing portray a set of cultural connotations.

Each meaningful word, considered without any context, is characterized by a set of semantic connotations [1].

To me this carries the connotation of error signals.

We counted positive, neutral, and negative connotations associated with responses to each category to identify what kinds of connotations they had.

Since the connotations are the same, the set of individuals denoted by the subject term is identical with the set of individuals denoted by the predicate term, and the proposition is true, simply by virtue of the verbal conventions.