Denominated
[dɪ'nɒmɪneɪt]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Denominate
Edited by Dorothy
Examples
- The whites could not toil without becoming degraded, and those who did were denominated poor white trash. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Prosperity is denominated ascent, and adversity descent. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- They were mostly drawn from that which, when such distinctions existed, was denominated the lower rank of society. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And laids, indeed, they were; being a set of four, denominated in the catalogue La vie d'une femme. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I did try, but was presently swept off the stool and denominated a little bungler. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Here the object, which is denominated beautiful, pleases only by its tendency to produce a certain effect. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Perhaps no man ever existed whose life can, with more justice, be denominated useful. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
Edited by Dorothy