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- Allegory - n. - A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.
- Allegory - n. - Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem.
- Allegory - n. - A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured.
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- G238 ἀλληγορέω - 238 ἀλληγορέω - ἈΛΛΗΓΟΡΈΩ - - allēgoréō - al-lay-gor-eh'-o - from ἄλλος and (to harangue (compare ἀγορά)); to allegorize:--be an allegory (the Greek word itself). - Verb - greek
- H4911 מָשַׁל - 4911 מָשַׁל - מָשַׁל - - mâshal - maw-shal' - denominative from מָשָׁל; to liken, i.e. (transitively) to use figurative language (an allegory, adage, song or the like); intransitively, to resemble; be(-come) like, compare, use (as a) proverb, speak (in proverbs), utter. - Verb - heb
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