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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
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Allegorist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Allegorist
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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