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[ adverb ] in a symbolic manner

Examples

"symbolically accepted goals"

Used in print

(Robert E. Lane, The Liberties of Wit: Humanism, Critici...)

If art is to release us from these postulated things [ things we must think symbolically about ] and bring us back to the ineffable beauty and richness of the aesthetic component of reality in its immediacy , it must sever its connection with these common_sense entities '' .

Related terms

emblematic emblematic

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[ adverb ] by means of symbols

Examples

"symbolically expressed"

Related terms

symbolic symbolic

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