Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who interprets Scripture allegorically. See
allegorism , 2. - noun One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who speaks in, or writes,
allegories .
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Examples
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As far as the collector is concerned, his collection is never complete; for let him discover just a single piece missing, and everything he’s collected remains a patchwork, which is what things are for the allegorist from the beginning.
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As far as the collector is concerned, his collection is never complete; for let him discover just a single piece missing, and everything he’s collected remains a patchwork, which is what things are for the allegorist from the beginning.
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Because profundity for the allegorist is, I guess, not a matter of reflection, as it might be for the collector, but rather a flash of illumination which only, after the fact, shines profound light and unforeseen meaning on each affected thing …
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The allegorist is, as it were, the polar opposite of the collector.
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Nevertheless – and this is more important than all the differences that may exists between them – in every collector hides an allegorist, and in every allegorist a collector.
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On the other hand, the allegorist – for whom objects represent only keywords in a secret dictionary, which will make known their meanings to the initiated – precisely the allegorist can never have enough of things.
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The allegorist is, as it were, the polar opposite of the collector.
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On the other hand, the allegorist – for whom objects represent only keywords in a secret dictionary, which will make known their meanings to the initiated – precisely the allegorist can never have enough of things.
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Nevertheless – and this is more important than all the differences that may exists between them – in every collector hides an allegorist, and in every allegorist a collector.
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Because profundity for the allegorist is, I guess, not a matter of reflection, as it might be for the collector, but rather a flash of illumination which only, after the fact, shines profound light and unforeseen meaning on each affected thing …
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