Meaning

The use of allegory..

Definitions by Sense

1. The use of allegory.
2. (theology) The belief that the primary value and significance of what is earthly and tangible is the way it points to the divine.

Example Sentences

These two tendencies correspond, mutatis mutandis, with the development of symbolism and allegorism in twentieth-century literature.

Schmidt makes a rather surprising statement when he ventures to assert that in general S. Irenaeus avoids allegorism, that when he uses it the exegesis is mostly typology, and that allegoristic passages are not for him determinative for faith.

Jordan Bartel of the Chicago Tribune named the chapter a timeless and saw a feasible Emmy recommendation for Vincent Kartheiser, however sensed the kitchenette sink allegorism and finishing voiceover was a itty-bitty heavyhanded.

He prefers a figural “attitude” to the pagan and primitive allegorisms and symbolisms, flags and emblems, which in his mind owe their strength and modern, global popularity to the powerful sense of history that the girual though had developed.

He goes so far as to affirm that in Scripture 'all has a spiritual meaning, but not everything has a literal meaning' (De princ. 2,3,5). We have here the point of departure for all the exaggerations of medieval allegorism.

The issue of the merits or demerits of allegorism became pronounced at the close of the 13th century and was keenly contested in the polemical literature of the second Maimonidean controversy.

Word Forms

• allegorisms

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When Should You Use Allegorism?

Use allegorism when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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