All 3 Uses
allude
in
Never Let Me Go
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- If she decided someone should be expelled, for example, and she sensed opposition, she'd just allude darkly to stuff she knew "from before."†
p. 52.6allude = to make an indirect reference
- But now it was okay, almost required, every now and then, to make some jokey allusion to these things that lay in front of us.†
p. 84.9 *allusion = an indirect reference
- Just every now and then, Ruth would allude to it.†
p. 235.5allude = to make 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)