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allegorist

[al-i-gawr-ist, -gohr-, al-i-ger-ist] / ˈæl ɪˌgɔr ɪst, -ˌgoʊr-, ˈæl ɪ gər ɪst /


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In an interview that Baldwin gave with Quincy Troupe toward the end of his life, he said that Toni was an allegorist, but that’s not really true.

From The New Yorker Aug. 8, 2019

He was primarily an allegorist who folded mythic figures into otherworldly visions of pagan religiosity.

From New York Times Oct. 13, 2016

Erró, the Icelandic painter who has been friends with Mr. Rosenquist since the two met in New York in the early 1960s, would instead be a late-medieval religious allegorist.

From New York Times Mar. 17, 2016

He now makes a most convincing case that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the ex-eye doctor who created the world's most famous sleuth, was really "a compulsive self-revealing allegorist."

From Time Magazine Archive

One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah




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