The connotative and denotative meaning of sickly in the passage are; in poor health and negative respectively.
The connotative and denotative meaning of canopy in the passage are; funeral shroud and a cloth covering respectively.
Connotative meaning is the meaning suggested by a word or thing in which case, this word suggests the meaning of a word apart from the thing it explicitly names or describes.
The denotative meaning of a word by definition is its central sense and the entire set of objects that can be contained in the word's meaning.
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