1. a person who creates or interprets allegories

Examples

• The medieval allegorizer transformed simple stories into complex moral teachings.
• As an allegorizer, she found hidden meanings in every fairy tale.
• The professor was known as a skilled allegorizer of ancient texts.
• Critics accused him of being an over-eager allegorizer who saw symbols everywhere.
• The allegorizer explained how the novel’s characters represented different virtues.
• Renaissance allegorizers often used mythological figures to convey Christian themes.