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Noun: allegoresis
  1. The interpretation of written, oral, or artistic expression as allegory.
    "The allegoresis of secular texts had been largely neglected since Fulgentius (sixth century), and was only reprised in the diffuse commentary tradition on Martianus that preceded Eriugena's study of that text."

Type of: interpretation