noun
- plural of allegorization; instances or acts of interpreting or expressing something as an allegory, or converting a narrative into allegorical form
Usage: formal; literary
Examples
- Medieval scholars produced numerous allegorizations of classical texts.
- The allegorizations of Dante's Divine Comedy have influenced centuries of literary criticism.
- Religious allegorizations of Old Testament stories were common in early Christian theology.
- Modern readers sometimes struggle with the allegorizations imposed on ancient myths.
- The author's allegorizations transformed a simple fable into a complex moral lesson.