All 5 Uses
allude
in
The Power and the Glory, by Cooke
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- Consadine's a poor provider," she said plaintively, alluding to her absent husband.†
Chpt 1alluding = making an indirect reference
- "Was that what you were doing," she asked, alluding to some small item of the operating, "when you stopped by the side of the road, Sunday night, when Miss Lydia was with you?"†
Chpt 7
- A "concrete form" she imagined might allude to the fact that Miss Sessions had a better figure than she.†
Chpt 8 *allude = to make an indirect reference
- I was not alluding to social classes.†
Chpt 9alluding = making an indirect reference
- Individuals who work in cotton mills, and are not adults, are never alluded to as children.†
Chpt 15alluded = indirectly referenced
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)