adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Of the nature of a parallelism; involving parallelism.

   "the antithetic or parallelistic form of the Hebrew poetry is entirely lost"

Example

More examples

"the antithetic or parallelistic form of the Hebrew poetry is entirely lost"

Etymology

From parallel + -istic.

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