Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who allegorizes; one who speaks in allegory or expounds allegorically.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist.
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- noun
Agent noun ofallegorize ; one who allegorizes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who communicates in allegories
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Examples
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Benjamin al-Nehawendi, himself a distinguished allegorizer of the
Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Norman Bentwich 1927
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The allegorizer requires an allegorist to interpret him aright.
Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Norman Bentwich 1927
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The allegorizer requires an allegorist to interpret him aright.
Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Bentwich, Norman 1910
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The light of historical research is beginning to illumine the obscurity of the Dark Ages, and has revealed traces of an Alexandrian allegorist in the writings of the Persian Jew Benjamin al-Nehawendi, himself a distinguished allegorizer of the Bible, who wrote in the ninth century and taught that God created the world by means of one ministerial angel. [
Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Bentwich, Norman 1910
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Still less would it have suited the amiable allegorizer to state that just midway in the educational process, his Colossal Youth, "as if" the sins of Samaria and of Sodom "were a very little thing," "was corrupted more than they in all his ways.
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