Definition of "signifying" [signifying]

• Present participle of signify. (verb)

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• "Webb smiled faintly at the term signifying his authority."
• "It was therefore decided that Brother David should under no circumstances be called abbot, the title signifying special authority."
• "Such being the environment of the Jewish residents of Alexandria, they soon acquired the vernacular and adopted the religion of the Greeks, who, having ever attached to their incarnate saviours the title signifying the Christ, or the anointed, were known as Christians."