Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In theology, a supposed hidden meaning or double sense underlying the language of the Bible.
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(Symposium III, 6), all use hyponoia to mean what is later subsumed under allegory (Pépin, pp. 85-86).
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ANGUS FLETCHER 1968
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