单词 | allegoresis |
释义 | allegoresisn. Explanation and exposition of allegorical meanings; allegorical interpretation. Also: this as a discipline or genre. ΚΠ 1870 T. L. Kingsbury tr. F. Delitzsch Comm. Epist. Hebrews II. (xi. 10) 239 The obscuring breath of philosophic speculation and allegoresis. 1953 W. R. Trask tr. E. R. Curtius European Lit. & Lat. Middle Ages xi. 205 Allegory becomes the basis of all textual interpretation... Here lie the roots of that which may be called medieval ‘allegorism’... Homeric allegoresis [Ger. Homerallegorese] had come into existence as a defense of Homer against philosophy. 1965 P. Dronke Medieval Lat. & Rise European Love Lyric v. 270 There is no trace of theological allegorêsis here. 1970 M. E. Goldsmith Mode & Meaning of ‘Beowulf’ ii. 35 Allegoresis provided a valuable means of extracting spiritual and moral nourishment from unpromising texts. 1986 Notes & Queries Mar. 12/2 This allegoresis has the force of a riddle rather than of a solution to an allegorical problem. 2009 P. Marcinkiewicz Rhetoric in City i. 75 Quilligan claims that true allegorical narratives resist allegoresis, because they contain their own interpretation. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1870 |
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