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- noun Plural form of
symbolist .
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Examples
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Sova, and Hlaváček were called symbolists and the idea of a school or at least a group of Czech symbolist poets is firmly established.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas REN 1968
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Lutheran symbols and the "symbolists" who opposed the Reformed theology of Schmucker and his compeers, and ridiculing in the coarsest fashion everything distinctive of true and historic Lutheranism.
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Sprecher, and others decided on a _coup d'etat_ in order to force the issue, to create a test-question, to separate the parties, to eliminate the "symbolists," and thus forever to make the General Synod immune against genuine Old School Lutheran confessionalism and safe for their own mongrel Puritanic-Calvinistic-Methodistic-American Lutheranism.
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Corliss, having terminated a buzz with a Miss Mortimer on the decadence of the French symbolists, encountered Del Bishop.
CHAPTER 7 2010
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And I'll add: because someone must be William Stafford, someone must save us from the symbolists and literati, and confessionals that go on page after year after open mic, someone must be a river that is only a river.
Why I don’t write poetry anymore: Sam Rasnake 2011
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Now ivory-tower intellectuals and symbolists proudly display their "magical seeds" of sustainism.
Michael DeJong: The Human Stain on "Sustainism" Michael DeJong 2011
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Q: As someone who romanticized the French symbolists, just as Queen is British, giving the poetry book is handing off the ultimate symbol of French subversion. â¨â¨
Brad Balfour: Exclusive: French Director Carion Bids Farewell to Russian Spy 2010
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Writing had already become an important business to me when I was at the beginning of my twenties, and in those days the great French symbolists of the nineteenth century may have exercised an unconscious influence upon me.
Ballardian » ‘Der Visionär des Phantastischen’: An Interview with J.G. Ballard 2008
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Q: As someone who romanticized the French symbolists, just as Queen is British, giving the poetry book is handing off the ultimate symbol of French subversion.
Brad Balfour: Exclusive: French Director Carion Bids Farewell to Russian Spy Brad Balfour 2010
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Q: As someone who romanticized the French symbolists, just as Queen is British, giving the poetry book is handing off the ultimate symbol of French subversion.
Brad Balfour: Exclusive: French Director Carion Bids Farewell to Russian Spy 2010
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