All 7 Uses
allude
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Lord Jim
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- I marvelled greatly at this expression: he might have been alluding to some trifling occurrence.†
Chpt 6 *alluding = making an indirect reference
- I've had the questionable pleasure of meeting it often, years afterwards, thousands of miles away, emerging from the remotest possible talk, coming to the surface of the most distant allusions.†
Chpt 12allusions = indirect references
- I knew very well he was not alluding to his duties; he had an easy time of it with De Jongh.†
Chpt 19alluding = making an indirect reference
- The name of this merchant, adventurer, sometime adviser of a Malay sultan (to whom he never alluded otherwise than as "my poor Mohammed Bonso"), had, on account of a few bushels of dead insects, become known to learned persons in Europe, who could have had no conception, and certainly would not have cared to know anything, of his life or character.†
Chpt 19alluded = indirectly referenced
- Who was the woman he had mentioned in connection with Patusan I can't say; but from his allusions I understand she had been an educated and very good-looking Dutch-Malay girl, with a tragic or perhaps only a pitiful history, whose most painful part no doubt was her marriage with a Malacca Portuguese who had been clerk in some commercial house in the Dutch colonies.†
Chpt 21allusions = indirect references
- Some muttered allusions, which followed, to dogs and the smell of roast-meat, struck me as singularly felicitous.†
Chpt 29
- In the morning Cornelius made no allusion to the events of the night.†
Chpt 31allusion = an indirect reference
Definitions:
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(1)
(allude) to make an indirect referenceThe expression, no allusion can mean "not even an indirect reference"; i.e., neither a direct nor an indirect reference to something.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)