Anagogic
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Something that’s “anagogic” (an-uh-GOJ-ik) – from the Greek for “to lift up” – has a secondary spiritual meaning.
Example (as used by Joy Williams in a New York Times review of Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor by Brad Gooch ): “She was an anagogical writer, of that there is no doubt. The civil rights movement interested her not at all.”
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