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emblematical

adjective as in symbolic

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“In Dürer’s divine harmony,” he writes, “animals took on an emblematical role. He saw them the way a monk read the scriptures, or an astronomer peered into the sky.”

“A white flag would thus be emblematical of our cause.”

It is impossible, in the assumed arena of conflict between ourselves and the emblematical apex predator that is the great white shark, not to see such tragedy in sensational terms.

"The absence of eyes I take to be emblematical of moral blindness; for in the world of spirits there is no deceiving each other by false seemings; as we are, so we appear."

As the initial stroke it may well be emblematical of the beginnings of things in the great Northwest.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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