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  • Hübbe-Schleiden, on the contrary, holds that fetishism is not a proper designation for a religion, because Judaism and Christianity have their fetishes as well as the nature religions, and says the word fetish should be used as analogous to a word-symbol or emblem.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • The alternative will be called delusive, for, in European literature at least, there is no word-symbol that does not imply a spoken sound, and no excellence without euphony.

    Style Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891

  • So perfect is it at times in its natural power that the mind is almost unconscious of the word-symbol in grasping immediately the thought revealed.

    The Poems of Henry Timrod Henry Timrod 1847

  • Whether this manifests as denial or apathy, it also has a biblical word-symbol … hypocrisy.

    UUpdates - All updates 2010

  • And if I were to give it a biblical word-symbol, I would give it one so full of meaning that it can almost never be translated … I would call this one "the Realm of God".

    UUpdates - All updates 2010

  • Whether this manifests as denial or apathy, it also has a biblical word-symbol … hypocrisy.

    UUpdates - All updates 2010

  • When it is connected to the power to enforce the pre-conception, it becomes racism, sexism, ageism, etc … Theologically, allowing the symbol to replace the complex reality that the symbol is only supposed to imperfectly represent has a word-symbol of its own.

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  • When it is connected to the power to enforce the pre-conception, it becomes racism, sexism, ageism, etc … Theologically, allowing the symbol to replace the complex reality that the symbol is only supposed to imperfectly represent has a word-symbol of its own.

    UUpdates - All updates 2010

  • And if I were to give it a biblical word-symbol, I would give it one so full of meaning that it can almost never be translated … I would call this one "the Realm of God".

    UUpdates - All updates 2010

  • It's almost like a logo becoming a grapheme, a word-symbol, like in eastern languages.

    Be A Design Group 2009

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