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of a word

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Why should it not be the whole function of a word to denote many things? J. L. Austin

For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be defined thus the meaning of a word is its use in the language. Ludwig Wittgenstein

I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word. Stanley Cavell

And yet shall Love himself be heard, Though long deferred, though long deferred: O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred: Music is Love in search of a word. Sidney Lanier

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it. Sarah Silverman

'Never' is too much of a word. Nothing lasts forever. Martin Van Creveld

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