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/sˈɪmbəlˌɪzəm/ Listen

noun

Symbolism n.

The act of symbolizing, or the state of being symbolized; as, symbolism in Christian art is the representation of truth, virtues, vices, etc., by emblematic colors, signs, and forms.

A system of symbols or representations.

(Chem.)

(a)

The practice of using symbols, or the system of notation developed thereby.

(b)

A combining together of parts or ingredients. (Obs.)

(Theol.) The science of creeds; symbolics.

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Etymology of 'Symbolism'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Symbolism" Quotes from Famous Books

... difficulty in probing the allegory; and those who follow the hero's vicissitudes as a private in the Gasoliers, right through to his victorious advancement to the rank of Acting Lance-Corporal, unpaid (and there is a symbolism even in the "unpaid"), will readily supply the application to the ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CLVIII, January 7, 1920 • Various

... pictures. It would be long to enter into the more subtile and less satisfactory interpretations of their symbolic meanings which are to be found in the works of some of the later fathers, and which afford, as in many other instances, illustrations of the extravagance of symbolism into which the studies of the cell, the darkness of their age, and the insufficiency of their education often ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II, No. 8, June 1858 • Various

... minutely accurate blades of grass. But two minutely accurate blades of grass are just as irrelevant as two million; it is the formal significance of a blade of grass or of a meadow with which the artist is concerned. The Pre-Raffaelite method is at best symbolism, at worst pure silliness. Had the Pre-Raffaelites been blessed with profoundly imaginative minds they might have recaptured the spirit of the Middle Ages instead of imitating its least significant manifestations. But had they been great artists they would not have wished to recapture anything. They ...

— Art • Clive Bell

... and "Mysteres," which you will remember were presented to Francois I., the citizens determined that in case mythology and symbolism had lost their pristine charms, an absolutely novel entertainment should be given to the King on this occasion. So on the fields between the Couvent des Emmurees and the left bank of the Seine a great sham fight was arranged between ...

— The Story of Rouen • Sir Theodore Andrea Cook

... Art.—Relation of symbolism to fetichism. Primitive idols. Charms and amulets. Tokens. Tombs, temples, altars. Sacrifice. Symbolism of colors and numbers. Special symbols; the bird; the serpent; trees; the cross; the svastika; the ...

— Anthropology - As a Science and as a Branch of University Education in the United States • Daniel Garrison Brinton

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