Definition of Allegorist

1. n. One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory.

Definition of Allegorist

1. Noun. One who speaks in, or writes, allegories. ¹

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Definition of Allegorist

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Allegorist

allegiant
allegiantly
allegiants
allegiaunce
alleging
allegoric
allegorical
allegorically
allegoricalness
allegories
allegorise
allegorised
allegoriser
allegorises
allegorising
allegorist
allegorists
allegorization
allegorizations
allegorize
allegorized
allegorizer
allegorizers
allegorizes
allegorizing
allegory
allegretto
allegrettos
allegrissimo
allegro

Literary usage of Allegorist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Bookmart: A Monthly Magazine of Literary and Library Intelligence edited by Richard Halkett (1887)
"Of course you understand, without my telling you, that when I talk in this way about the artist and the allegorist, I am discussing imaginary persons, ..."

2. The History of England from the Accession of James II by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1879)
"... shown equal ingenuity ; but no other allegorist has ever been able to touch the heart, and to make abstractions objects of terror, of pity, and of love. ..."

3. The History of England from the Accession of James the Second by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Hannah More Macaulay Trevelyan (1858)
"have shown equal ingenuity; but no other allegorist has ever been able to touch ... The „ T . * Young classes Bunyan's to the great allegorist: — people of ..."

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