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Meanings of allegoric in English
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Examples for "allegorical"
Examples for "allegorical"
1
Given the allegorical nature of the novel's content, so it should be.
2
They speak in allegorical form in glowing songs of wine and love.
3
The allegorical meaning of the poem is hidden under the literal one.
4
The allegorical significance is explained by the old poet at considerable length.
5
The work I mean is his allegorical poem of the Fairy Queen.
Usage of allegoric in English
1
In exalted poetry the allegoric, lyric, epic and dramatic seem to be blended.
2
These to him have no meaning, except an allegoric one.
3
The supernatural Stoic, and the allegoric Roman, theology coincided on the whole in their result.
4
Throughout the medieval ages they adhered chiefly to a spiritual, allegoric, moral, and mystic interpretation.
5
There is her own portrait with three allegoric figures.
6
In one month more I shall begin my tree in oil colors, with its allegoric garland.
7
She was too generously alive; but she could have stood for an allegoric statue of the Earth.
8
It was a superstition, not a religion; it admitted neither of allegoric interpretation nor of poetical idealisation.
9
Shepherds of Arcadia, and allegoric figures from the "Faerie Queen," were oddly mixed up with these.
10
Wild, fragmentary, gorgeous dreams they are, tangled in with strange allegoric words and designs, that throb with their prisoned vitality.
11
The groups of the corner pavilions, allegoric representations of machine building and engineering, were modeled by Professor Max Wiese, of Hanau.
12
No: my idea (which is much cheaper) is to make a house really allegoric: really explain its own essential meaning.
13
On the south face are allegoric figures calling mankind to the struggle, the two women holding palm branches, the insignia of victory.
14
Consequentially, I will avoid all technical terms and rather employ an allegoric form of expression than a terminology which is not universally understood.
15
Yet to curious retrospective minds not long afterwards, these graceful follies would seem tragic or allegoric, with an undercurrent of infernal irony throughout.
16
We must conclude with a few words on one point on which we differ somewhat from Mrs. Jameson-theallegoric origin of certain legendary stories.
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