Definitions for allegorist

allegorist al·le·go·rist

Spelling: [al-i-gawr-ist, -gohr-, al-i-ger-ist]
IPA: /ˈæl ɪˌgɔr ɪst, -ˌgoʊr-, ˈæl ɪ gər ɪst/

Allegorist is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 1060 anagrams from letters in allegorist (aegillorst).

Definitions for allegorist

noun

  1. a person who uses or writes allegory.

Origin of allegorist

First recorded in 1675-85; allegor(ize) + -ist

Examples for allegorist

We need not be so dense as to require the allegorist to say to us in so many words: "This is a parable."

The allegorizer requires an allegorist to interpret him aright.

To the allegorist, the fable or plot in epic or dramatic poetry was only a rind to cover attractively the kernel of truth.

Whatever the primitive Semitic allegorist may have thought, work is a blessing, not a curse.

Such a story tempts the allegorist, and indeed the main drift of its meaning is unmistakable.

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