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Definition of Allusions
1. allusion [n] - See also: allusion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Allusions
Literary usage of Allusions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853)
"What allusions most pleasing to the imagination. ... By these allusions, a truth
in the understanding is, as it were, reflected by the imagination; ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Moreover, his allusions to Maurice refer to the sufferings of the people under
his government, and do not reflect on the dead emperor himself. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"The wit of compositions of this kind is naturally, for the most part, evanescent ;
the covert allusions to the faults and peculiarities of the men of the ..."
4. The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages by Hastings Rashdall (1895)
"Frequency The difficulty of supposing that the Schools of Oxford of allusions
can have gradually and unaided by any sudden accession after 1170. ..."
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