Definitions
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- verb British To create an
allegory from someevent orsituation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make into an allegory
- verb interpret as an allegory
Etymologies
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Examples
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It can take political stances abhorrent to totalitarian regimes and allegorise them, get them under the radar, as many writers in the Soviet Bloc did.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Hal Duncan 2006
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It can take political stances abhorrent to totalitarian regimes and allegorise them, get them under the radar, as many writers in the Soviet Bloc did.
field guide subs now closed jlundberg 2006
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Like the Phœnix idea amongst the people of Egypt, Persia, and India, these traditions allegorise the soul's immortality.
A History of Nursery Rhymes Percy B. Green
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This poem has been thought by earlier commentators to allegorise an event known to have happened in 1358, by later critics another which occurred in 1364.
Chaucer Adolphus William Ward 1880
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But to allegorise and sermonise is out of place here.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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But to allegorise and sermonise is out of place here.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866
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