All 6 Uses
denotes
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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- She had inherited the feature from her mother without the quality it denoted.†
Chpt 1 *
- They crept along towards a point in the expanse of shade just at hand at which a feeble light was beginning to assert its presence, a spot where, by day, a fitful white streak of steam at intervals upon the dark green background denoted intermittent moments of contact between their secluded world and modern life.†
Chpt 4
- It was said afterwards that a cottager of Wellbridge, who went out late that night for a doctor, met two lovers in the pastures, walking very slowly, without converse, one behind the other, as in a funeral procession, and the glimpse that he obtained of their faces seemed to denote that they were anxious and sad.†
Chpt 5
- Though unsophisticated in the usual sense, she was not incomplete; and it would have denoted deficiency of womanhood if she had not instinctively known what an argument lies in propinquity.†
Chpt 5
- "Is that man your husband?" he asked mechanically, denoting by a sign the labourer who turned the machine.†
Chpt 6
- When Izz Huett and Tess arrived at the scene of operations only a rustling denoted that others had preceded them; to which, as the light increased, there were presently added the silhouettes of two men on the summit.†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(denotes) stand for or symbolize literally; or be a sign or indicator of
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)