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- adjective Not
symbolic
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- adjective not standing for something else
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Examples
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Housman uses his symbols in a simple, direct (almost unsymbolic!) way.
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It's a crucial arena for a host of unsymbolic reasons -- political geography, population size, oil, to name but three.
"We have to have the stomach to finish the task." Ann Althouse 2007
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Hawthorne's attitude was always in part one of reserve and criticism, an attitude which is apparent in the reminiscences of Brook Farm in his _American Note Books_, wherein he speaks with a certain resentment of "Miss Fuller's transcendental heifer," which hooked the other cows, and was evidently to Hawthorne's mind not unsymbolic in this respect of Miss Fuller herself.
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The pictures shown in the Opening is really unsymbolic to me and is just for fanservice if you ask me.
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_ and if you think of it on the unsymbolic plane, there is a certain nobility in the Despondency of Arjuna in the _Bhagavad-Gita.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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{438} mind not unsymbolic in this respect of Miss Fuller herself.
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_immediate_ and unsymbolic communication of ideas; notwithstanding which it is always clothed in the semblance of that language which
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822
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