having the power of explicitly denoting or designating or naming
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in accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term
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Denotative \De*not"a*tive\, a. Having power to denote; designating or marking off.
Proper names are pre["e]minently denotative; telling us that such as object has such a term to denote it, but telling us nothing as to any single attribute. --Latham.