“So by an agreement of the disputing parties, as in obligational disputes, we can impose on it a new signification, and not use it according to its common signification.”
“At the heart of this haunting lies the ghost of Mary Lou, who now serves as a signification of Melissa's inability to fit neatly into the parameters of heteronormativity.”
“This was not a vain and idle dream, but one that had in it a signification of future events.”
“Today, 50 years later, an African-American president will stand in the spot he stood and deliver his own speech, but whether that speech will match the impact or signifigance of King's is what many are wondering.”
“Most people on the streets of Middlesbrough seemed to back the Government's decision as they thought it wouldn't have much signifigance to smokers.”
signified
(linguistics) The concept or idea evoked by a sign.
“Is there any other short word so charged with a multiplicity of meanings and significations, so many disparate elements?”
“But this powerful stage image of breaking glass is overdetermined with other significations as well.”
“He implies that there is an unconscious substrate of symbolic life which allows new meaning to be created from the multiple significations of existing symbols.”