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Overtone what does overtone mean in this context? Fornication is generally consensual sexual intercourse between two people not married to each other. For many people, the term carries an overtone of moral or religious disapproval, but the significance of sexual acts to which the term is applied varies between religions, societies and cultures. Thank you very much :)
31 mars 2015 11:32
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It means a suggestion of. So in this context it means that some people may think it carries disapproval by themselves are others
31 mars 2015
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An overtone is an implicit message which is perceived as overwhelming an explicit message. So even though fornication is consentual sex between two unmarried people (the explicit message), others/most people are still going to think you are slutty and/or nasty (the implicit message) due to the moral and religious values they have. :) An undertone is more of a subtle suggestion. That is, people wouldn't care if you had sex without being married but they would also recognize that it is considered nasty in the eyes of the church on some level. :)
3 avril 2015
It means the same thing as 'connotation' or 'association'. That is, it carries meaning(s) beyond or in addition to the explicit definition of the word.
1 avril 2015
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