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allegory

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noun/ˈælɪɡəɹi//ˈælɪɡɹi//ˈæləˌɡɔɹi/
  1. 1

    The use of symbols which may be interpreted to reveal a hidden, broader message, usually a moral or political one, about real-world issues and occurrences; also, the interpretation of such symbols.rhetoricuncountable

    • As some of the finest compositions among the ancients are in allegory, I have endeavoured, in several of my papers, to revive that way of writing, and hope I have not been altogether unsuccessful in it; […]
    • Allegory Metaphors continues still, / Which with new graces every sentence fill.
  2. 2

    A picture, story, or other form of communication in which one or more characters, events, or places are used to reveal a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.broadlycountableuncountable

    • [T]hey held the Creed in the plain literal ſenſe thereof vvithout any ſhuffling Allegories, […]
    • And thus it vvas: I vvriting of the VVay / And Race of Saints, in this our Goſpel-Day, / Fell ſuddenly into an Allegory / About their Journey, and the vvay to Glory, / In more than tvventy things, vvhich I ſet dovvn; […]
  3. 3

    A character or thing which symbolically represents someone or something else; an emblem, a symbol.broadlycountableuncountable

    • [T]he Harp of Ireland, puts me in mind, of that Glorious Embleme, or Allegory, vvherein the vviſdome of Antiquity, did figure, and ſhadovv out, vvorks of this Nature.
    • There were casts of the Gladiator—he whose native courage struggled against the doom which was yet welcome—a mournful allegory of honour.
  4. 4

    A category that retains some of the structure of the category of binary relations between sets, representing a high-level generalization of that category.broadlycountableuncountable

verb/ˈælɪɡəɹi//ˈælɪɡɹi//ˈæləˌɡɔɹi/
  1. 1

    Synonym of allegorize.; To interpret (a picture, story, or other form of communication) to reveal a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.archaictransitive

  2. 2

    Synonym of allegorize.; To create an allegory (noun sense 2.1) from (a character, an event or situation, etc.); also, to use one or more symbols to depict (a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences).archaictransitive

  3. 3

    Synonym of allegorize.; Followed by away: to treat (something) as allegorical or symbolic rather than as truth.archaictransitive

  4. 4

    Synonym of allegorize.; To interpret an allegory.archaicintransitive

  5. 5

    Synonym of allegorize.; To create or use allegory.archaicintransitive

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