OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 25737

signify

/ˈsɪɡnɪfaɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
significar
To mean; to betoken.
Life’s […] a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.
Mrs Varden was a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper—a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomforta…