symbolic significance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsymbolicandsignificance
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symbolic
adjective
uk/sɪmˈbɒl.ɪk/us/sɪmˈbɑː.lɪk/
representing ...
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significance
noun[U]
uk/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kəns/us/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kəns/
importance:
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(Definition ofsymbolicandsignificancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Of course, even when terms are used with technical precision, they can still resonate withsymbolicsignificance.
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This rhetoric clearly endowed the king's body with widersymbolicsignificance, and this transformation is equally implicit in his own translation of the psalms.
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This area had started to lose itssymbolicsignificancefrom the late nineteenth century as a result of the economic and social developments.
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So apart from the utilitarian and aesthetic aspects of wood, itssymbolicsignificanceas representing brahman cannot be overstated.
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However, the body is not simply a neutral entity on whichsymbolicsignificanceis inscribed.
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Here it must be said that not all reproductive powers are of equalsymbolicsignificance.
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But some nonsentient beings such as early human embryos can have moral value that derives from theirsymbolicsignificance.
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But the names and their attendant stories clearly havesymbolicsignificanceas well.
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It only implies that itssymbolicsignificancehad undergone some transformation.
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Thesymbolicsignificanceof architecture is now well understood.
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Indeed, how could 'up ' come to have itssymbolicsignificancewithout it having had any prior literal significance?
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First, it was seen as a healer of society, building on thesymbolicsignificanceof medicine as an omnipotent healer.
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These observations notwithstanding, thesymbolicsignificanceof this book, already noted, transcends the collective substance of the individual contributions.
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Tensions festered but then broke forth in fresh calls for reform in which access to records was a point of practical andsymbolicsignificance.
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The completed circle of a promise made, relied upon, and then kept, is often invested withsymbolicsignificance.
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Symbolicsignificancecounts as one morally relevant consideration but not necessarily an overriding one.
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In addition, social andsymbolicsignificanceis not the only condition that determines what gets picked up.
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It is thus of economic, political andsymbolicsignificance.
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