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adj. - Having the power of explicitly designating or naming.

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  • The newborn markers were ofttimes given denotive labels.
  • It is believed that a name should be simply a denotive word, and that no advantage can accrue from a descriptive or connotive title.
  • What is now needed is a rule of some kind leading scholars to use the same terms for the same things, and it would seem to matter little in the case of linguistic stocks what...
  • The aborigines were at the time of discovery, and indeed most of them remain today, in the prescriptorial stage of culture, i.e., the stage in which ideas are crystallized, not...
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