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signifying

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of signify Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

noun signifyings

  1. signification For the sake of convenience, we may call these pointings or signifyings the secondary phase of meaning.

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@misc{signifying_2026,
  title = {signifying},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/signifying},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}