signify
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Verb [edit]
signify (third-person singular simple present signifies, present participle signifying, simple past and past participle signified)
- To give (something) a meaning or an importance.
- To show one’s intentions with a sign etc.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- I'll to the king; and signify to him / That thus I have resign'd my charge to you.
- (Can we date this quote?) Jonathan Swift
- The government should signify to the Protestants of Ireland that want of silver is not to be remedied.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- To mean; to betoken.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- A tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
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Translations [edit]
to give something a meaning
to show one's intentions
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