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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
allegorize .
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Examples
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Neither will it represent a slide on that much-allegorized "slippery slope" towards limiting free speech.
Dorian de Wind: Snyder v. Phelps: Does Hate Speech Trump the Right to Mourn with Dignity? Dorian de Wind 2010
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Neither will it represent a slide on that much-allegorized "slippery slope" towards limiting free speech.
Dorian de Wind: Snyder v. Phelps: Does Hate Speech Trump the Right to Mourn with Dignity? Dorian de Wind 2010
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Neither will it represent a slide on that much-allegorized "slippery slope" towards limiting free speech.
Dorian de Wind: Snyder v. Phelps: Does Hate Speech Trump the Right to Mourn with Dignity? Dorian de Wind 2010
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At the same time, it is also a slate onto whose surface our private hopes and desires and victories and failures and hatreds and loves are inscribed and thereby transformed -- allegorized or made more concrete, illuminated or darkened, depending on who wins, who loses, who plays beautifully, who badly.
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The most explicitly religious part of his myth is the most strenuously, and the least successfully, allegorized.
LOSING OUR RELIGION S. E. CUPP 2010
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The most explicitly religious part of his myth is the most strenuously, and the least successfully, allegorized.
LOSING OUR RELIGION S. E. CUPP 2010
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The inclusion and portrayal of the Nigerians smacks of direct racism, and the central premise is both too different to allegorize and too allegorized.
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Appearing in poetry as an allegorized figure is also poetry itself.
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Pluto and Proserpine; which were afterwards ornamented by the poets, and allegorized by the philosophers.
Progress of Society 2006
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In the end, it's an argument that profoundly misunderstands the role and the workings of fiction, mistaking its ability to reflect and allegorize the world for an idea that a change in the representation might change the world reflected and allegorized.
The “Do You Know What MySpace Is?” of its Day | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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