Allusion vs Allude - What's the difference?
allusion | allude | Derived terms |
An indirect reference; a hint; a reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned; a covert indication.
To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion.
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Allude is a derived term of allusion.
As a noun allusion
is an indirect reference; a hint; a reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned; a covert indication.As a verb allude is
to refer to something indirectly or by suggestion.allusion
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(wikipedia allusion)Noun
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(allud)Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book V, Chapter xxix.3, 1841 ed., page 523:
- These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use.
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- It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude .
citation, passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}
