signifying
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
signifying
- present participle and gerund of signify
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:
- 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[edit]
signifying (plural signifyings)
- signification
- 1939, Coleman Roberts Griffith, Psychology Applied to Teaching and Learning:
- For the sake of convenience, we may call these pointings or signifyings the secondary phase of meaning.