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Meanings of emblematical in English
Serving as a visible symbol for something abstract.
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Examples for "symbolic"
Examples for "symbolic"
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The result is symbolic but could have international implications, the BBC reports.
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Particular symbolic traditions have evolved as certain forms have become regularly employed.
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Writer-producer Tom Fontana said the international support was an important symbolic gesture.
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Many factors contributed to its current weak and largely symbolic political position.
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But it could be symbolic because federal law typically supersedes state laws.
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They were emblematic of the unsullied ideals of freedom, democracy, and fairness.
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The covers are emblematic, and the jackets are showy and in colors.
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Many saw it as emblematic of a climate of impunity in Romania.
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For since the Middle Ages the doctrine of emblematic colouring is extinct.
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The emblematic correspondence is striking, and the inference is obvious and beautiful.
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The stopping of the carriage seemed to him, in a sense, symbolical.
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The blind woman seemed strangely symbolical and the parish, the priest too.
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All is symbolical in this composition, of which the sentiment is sublime.
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All of these symbolical ideas might have been taken from that figure.
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But doubtless they have not the same symbolical value for the English.
Usage of emblematical in English
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His character was emblematical of the worst side of the liberating movement.
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Bound in cloth, full gilt back, and emblematical design on side, 3s.
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He had selected it, doubtless, as emblematical of his sister and himself.
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We can never turn our eyes upward without seeing truth's emblematical color.
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The lion, emblematical of Omnipotence, is also the apt allegory of the Resurrection.
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To have been emblematical, the gall should have been presented to the bride.
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Yellow is naturally emblematical of the sun and it became the symbol of warmth.
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The seven steps were emblematical of the seven worlds which constituted the Indian universe.
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This was emblematical of one of their future exercises, the hunting of the kangaroo.
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They were clad in emblematical dresses, and wore garlands of flowers on their heads.
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It has also a correct whole-length portrait, with emblematical devices.
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There was something emblematical in the misfortune which had bereft the picture of its setting.
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This I accepted as emblematical of the struggle for post and place in railway times.
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Some flowers have become emblematical from their curious characteristics.
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Now for a circle, emblematical of our eternal union!
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This is carved with a set of mysterious figures, supposed to be emblematical of the crucifixion.
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