Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A writer or narrator of parables.Boothroyd.
  • noun One who studies, or a partizan of, the parabola.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A narrator of parables.

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  • noun A narrator of parables.

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Examples

  • What was the inspiration to portray Jesus as a "parabolist" and a successful exorcist?

    Triablogue 2009

  • We read him as a stylist of lean, spare prose, and a parabolist who embodied fractals of modern sensibility.

    California Literary Review 2009

  • We read him as a stylist of lean, spare prose, and a parabolist who embodied fractals of modern sensibility.

    California Literary Review 2009

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