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Meanings of symbolical in English
Serving as a visible symbol for something abstract.
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Examples for "emblematic"
Examples for "emblematic"
1
They were emblematic of the unsullied ideals of freedom, democracy, and fairness.
2
The covers are emblematic, and the jackets are showy and in colors.
3
Many saw it as emblematic of a climate of impunity in Romania.
4
For since the Middle Ages the doctrine of emblematic colouring is extinct.
5
The emblematic correspondence is striking, and the inference is obvious and beautiful.
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His character was emblematical of the worst side of the liberating movement.
2
Bound in cloth, full gilt back, and emblematical design on side, 3s.
3
He had selected it, doubtless, as emblematical of his sister and himself.
4
We can never turn our eyes upward without seeing truth's emblematical color.
5
The lion, emblematical of Omnipotence, is also the apt allegory of the Resurrection.
Usage of symbolical in English
1
The stopping of the carriage seemed to him, in a sense, symbolical.
2
The blind woman seemed strangely symbolical and the parish, the priest too.
3
All is symbolical in this composition, of which the sentiment is sublime.
4
All of these symbolical ideas might have been taken from that figure.
5
But doubtless they have not the same symbolical value for the English.
6
The texts of the Holy Books are all symbolical, needing authoritative interpretation.
7
There are certain symbolical marks on the bottles, well known to connoisseurs.
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He is symbolical of everything that a boastful Germany can pretend to.
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This act was symbolical of his giving to her his worldly goods.
10
The aspen, from its tremulous motion, has been made symbolical of fear.
11
There's a camel in a frieze by Arthur Crisp, but not symbolical.
12
The symbolical meaning of each god disappears in his personal character.
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He is introspective in his thinking and symbolical in his writing.
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The terms reach out beyond the literal to the symbolical purification.
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The hook-pattern seems to be symbolical of conjunction and acquisition in various spheres.
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The snow seemed to be symbolical, walling them in from all the world.
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