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1. (n.) allegory
the representation of spiritual, moral, or other abstract meanings through the actions of fictional characters that serve as symbols.
2. allegory
an allegorical or figurative narrative, poem, or the like: the allegory of Piers Plowman.
Etymology: (1350–1400; ME < L allēgoria < Gk allēgoría, der. of allēgoreîn to speak so as to imply something other =
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) fable, parable, allegory, apologue
a short moral story (often with animal characters)
2. (noun) emblem, allegory
a visible symbol representing an abstract idea
3. (noun) allegory
an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) allegory
a figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject
2. (noun) allegory
anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem
3. (noun) allegory
a figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. allegory
a figurative mode of representation, in which a subject of a higher spiritual order is described in terms of that of a lower which resembles it in properties and circumstances, the principal subject being so kept out of view that we are left to construe the drift of it from the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.
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