All 3 Uses
allude
in
The Chosen, by Chaim Potok
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- In the first interview Baer, in a seemingly casual manner, was able, in a skillfully arranged discourse, to bring in allusions to these strangers, whereby they would be convinced that he had looked into their hearts and knew their past.'†
Chpt 2.8allusions = indirect references
- I saw allusions in passages that Danny and his father overlooked, and I resolved a contradiction with an appeal to grammar.†
Chpt 2.8 *
- I made vague allusions to personal problems and went away from them cold with despair.†
Chpt 3.14
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)