Definition of "symbolists" [symbolists]

• Plural form of symbolist. (noun)

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• "Sova, and Hlaváček were called symbolists and the idea of a school or at least a group of Czech symbolist poets is firmly established."
• "Lutheran symbols and the "symbolists" who opposed the Reformed theology of Schmucker and his compeers, and ridiculing in the coarsest fashion everything distinctive of true and historic Lutheranism."
• "Sprecher, and others decided on a _coup d'etat_ in order to force the issue, to create a test-question, to separate the parties, to eliminate the "symbolists," and thus forever to make the General Synod immune against genuine Old School Lutheran confessionalism and safe for their own mongrel Puritanic-Calvinistic-Methodistic-American Lutheranism."