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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

Occasionally it gives us a wonderful piece of broken impressionism; but the stricter Futurists are symbolistic beyond all understanding.

From The Book of This and That by Robert Lynd

Fables are stories; most of them are animal-stories; they are symbolistic or figurative or allegorical—so that one must approach them from many points of view, and take them into consideration in many connections.

From Literature in the Elementary School by Porter Lander MacClintock

It need hardly be said that the exercises in the symbolistic kinds of literature are to be inserted here and there among the other lessons.

From Literature in the Elementary School by Porter Lander MacClintock

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