connotative

The label connotative is inserted to indicate those words and meanings that come from a source other than the name in the headword but are nonetheless closely associated with it.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 2 1981

Instead I found an illtempered, confused set of generalizations about what analytical philosophers believe about history, distortion and misrepresentation of my views, and a peroration on the "wholly denotative" language of science and the "connotative" language of history that should win Hexter some kind of prize for philosophical incompetence.

Letting Go White, Morton 1967

Even more generously, he helps me (and with a helper like White I need no hinderers) to say what he wants me to mean by "connotative," but what I did not say and did not mean when I used the term.

Letting Go White, Morton 1967

If Hexter were more philosophically literate than he appears to be, he might say that when he uses the word "connotative" he has in mind what some philosophers mean by the word "emotive."

Letting Go White, Morton 1967

[Footnote: Originally 'connotative' was used in the same sense in which we have used 'attributive,' for a word which directly signifies the presence of an attribute and indirectly applies to a subject.

Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock

Personal names have both denotative and connotative functions — shorthand for a bundle of associations attached to a person.

IPSC: trademark and the consumer Rebecca Tushnet 2009

Personal names have both denotative and connotative functions — shorthand for a bundle of associations attached to a person.

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I would like to use the phrase "family values", but that term has become loaded with connotative political baggage. christoph says:

A Different Extremism… On the Rise? « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2010

I remember that 90s rule to create characters for Image Comics (from progressiveboink): 1 - take a pre-existing Marvel or DC Comics character that fat guys would like (The Punisher) 2 - change his name to couple a negatively connotative word (blood, die, death) with a second but completely unrelated negatively connotative word (shot, hard, blow) 3 - draw scribbles all over him

Matthew Vaughn’s Next Film to be Adaptation of Bloodshot? | /Film 2010

I sometimes stood shoulder to shoulder with meaningful people I have referred to in my lifetime as "colored," then "negro," then "black," now "African-American" -- connotative acknowledgment in those words of the evolving social changes in our country, despite the occasional throwbacks.

Lea Lane: On MLK's Birthday: Racism Now, Remembering Racism Then 2010