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Definition of Allegorization
1. n. The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense.
Definition of Allegorization
1. Noun. The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Allegorization
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Allegorization
Literary usage of Allegorization
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Testimony of Jesus Christ by Anthony/Charles Garland (2007)
"Although Aquinas endorsed looking beyond the primary meaning of the author, he
did recognize some of the dangers of allegorization. "Aquinas put forward a ..."
2. The Theological and Literary Journal (1860)
"Yet this is but one of countless inaptitudes and solecisms in which they involve
themselves who attempt by allegorization to wrest this and other similar ..."
3. The Folk-lore Journal by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1883)
"... are alike in the fact that they are composed of floating tales which lent
themselves readily to allegorization by the preachers of a new creed. ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"The variations between positive religions are explained as due partly to the
allegorization of nature, partly to self-deception, the workings of imagination ..."
5. Journal of Theological Studies by Oxford Journals (Oxford University Press) (1906)
"Ignorant confidence in the letter of the Scripture was dangerous enough, but
ignorant allegorization of the same was deadly. The ignorance of the elementary ..."
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