symbolist has definitions from the field of fine art
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[ noun ] (fine art) a member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols

Used in print

(Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)

Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic_romancers , who deal in extravagant horror , to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century , and in_particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists , Henry_James and James_Joyce among them .

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artist

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[ noun ] someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols

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interpreter symbolize

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