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Word entry · 8 letters

allegory

Best crossword clue

"Symbolic story"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈælɪɡəɹi/Part of speech nounSorted aeglloryStarts with AEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
1A2L3L4E5G6O7R8Y

Definitions

  1. A story or image that uses symbols to express a deeper meaning.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • Allegory and Poetic Delineation, as I said above, cannot be religious Faith: the Faith itself must first be there, then Allegory enough will gather round it, as the fit body round its soul.

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