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Allegories of collective degeneration have a tendency toward the phantasmagoric, as in José Saramago’s novel “Blindness,” which was published in 1997.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 6, 2019

Thus in him are united the quattrocentist tradition and the fresher ideals of the cinquecento, which found earliest expression in Giambellini's Allegories of about 1486-90.

From Giorgione by Cook, Herbert

Allegories and parables pass into each other by insensible degrees.

From Companion to the Bible by Barrows, E. P. (Elijah Porter)

Allegories, Truth hidden under a succession of, 246-l.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

Degrees, Allegories from old religions, mysteries used in revision of, 328-m.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert