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symbolistic

  • a word derived from symbolist.
    symbolist
    noun
    a person who uses symbols or symbolism.

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Most Frenchmen never heard of these symbolistic efforts and most of those who did thought them as tortuous and intangible as Leger's diplomacy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Munch developed his spare "symbolistic" style about 1892.

From Time Magazine Archive

Banneker made the world-wide symbolistic finger-shuffle of money-handling.

From Success A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams

My gifted nephew Eric Till just before the War Was steeped in esoteric And antinomian lore, Now verging on the mystic, Now darkly symbolistic, Now frankly Futuristic, And modern to the core.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 7, 1916 by Sir Owen Seaman

Here is again the singular Pre-Raphaelite and symbolistic scenery, with its images from art and not from nature.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

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