allegorist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of allegorist
First recorded in 1675–85; allegor(ize) + -ist
Example Sentences
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In an interview that Baldwin gave with Quincy Troupe toward the end of his life, he said that Toni was an allegorist, but that’s not really true.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 8, 2019
He was primarily an allegorist who folded mythic figures into otherworldly visions of pagan religiosity.
From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2016
Erró, the Icelandic painter who has been friends with Mr. Rosenquist since the two met in New York in the early 1960s, would instead be a late-medieval religious allegorist.
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2016
A galvanic force--ambitious, hugely inventive, avaricious--he is the portraitist of the poshest plutocrats, nobly aglitter, and the allegorist of human wreckage.
From Time Magazine Archive
To the allegorist, the fable or plot in epic or dramatic poetry was only a rind to cover attractively the kernel of truth.
From Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Clark, Donald Lemen
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