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Metaphoric

adjective
1.
Expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another.  Synonym: metaphorical.  "Metaphoric language"






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"Metaphoric" Quotes from Famous Books



... hundred different occasions convey this one truth in a hundred different figures of speech. That in which the images all differ is unessential: that in which they all agree must be the essential thought. Now the parables differ in the forms of judgment they picture. Therefore these forms are metaphoric dress. The parables agree in assigning a different fate to the righteous and the wicked. Therefore this difference is the vital truth. And Jesus nowhere makes righteousness consist in anything national, dogmatic, or ceremonial, but everywhere ...
— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger



Words linked to "Metaphoric" :   nonliteral, metaphor, figurative



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