symbolist

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols
noun someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols

From French symboliste, coined by French poet Paul Verlaine in 1885.

He was not only poet and essayist; he was cleric and mystic, preacher, prophet, symbolist, philanthropist--some may add reactionary. — The Cornwall Coast, Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon
He is at the opposite pole from the symbolist; but true poetry demands much more distinction of style and nobility of thought. — Studies in Literature and History, Alfred C., Sir Lyall
This was the period when Watts was on every painter's tongue, and he seldom saw Alicia without a disputation concerning that famous symbolist. — Tatterdemalion, John Galsworthy

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