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symbolist
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from symbol + -ist . From 1888 in reference to a literary movement that aimed at representing ideas and emotions by indirect suggestion rather than direct expression, from French symboliste , coined 1885 by poet Paul Verlaine (1844-1896). Rejecting ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols [syn: symbolizer , symboliser ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context arts literature English) Of or pertaining to the Symbolist movement in late 19th-century and early 20th-century European arts and literature n. One who employs symbols.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Symbolist \Sym"bol*ist\, n. One who employs symbols.
Usage examples of symbolist.
His metaphysics is closely akin to that of the symbolists: it is a mysticism of impersonal forces that he has associated with the dynamic philosophy of Heraclitus the Dark.
Though in his technique he is almost free from symbolist influences, the general spirit of his poetry is much more akin to symbolism than to that of the younger school, for, alone of the younger poets, he is a mystic.
The preciosity of style and vocabulary in these works is much more reminiscent of the earlier part of the century, or of the Symbolist era, than of the materialistic 1860s.
By nature a symbolist, if not a sacramentalist, he found in such studies a task for which he was almost ideally fitted by temperament, training, and genius.
But the greatest and most refined poet of the first generation of symbolists rose from the lower orders, and his strange genius grew under the most unpropitious circumstances.
They made him their mascot and dressed him in tiny Dartmouth sweaters and warmups, and when Marc was otherwise occupied they toted him around the campus, letting him sop up the Ivy League ambiance and audit every kind of class from algorithm analysis to French Symbolist poetry.