allegorical
adjective
consisting of or pertaining to allegory; of the nature of or containing allegory; figurative.
allegoric
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a variation of
allegorical.
Example Sentences
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The film flirts with themes of surveillance and immigrant anxieties, but its allegoric ambitions are continually thwarted by yet another neighborly grievance.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2023
Grated, a few allegoric parallels to modern societal ills stand out, particularly when Buckingham’s servants clash with Downton’s staff.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2019
Made in 1953, two years before Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night summed up his ironic discussion of the domestic predicament, A Lesson in Love lacks the assurance and allegoric precision of that picture.
From Time Magazine Archive
The latter is the subject of a simple allegoric tale.
From Algic Researches, Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 of 2 Indian Tales and Legends by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Such is creative imagination140—symbolic, allegoric, or poetical imagination—where the intelligence gets a definite embodiment in this store of ideas and informs them with its general tone.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
