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Allusive   Listen
adjective
Allusive  adj.  
1.
Figurative; symbolical.
2.
Having reference to something not fully expressed; containing an allusion.





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"Allusive" Quotes from Famous Books



... prince's lamented death. Besides some epigrams and sonnets, the chief other piece of this division is the disastrous Andromeda Liberata, which unluckily celebrates the nuptials—stained with murder, adultery, and crime of all sorts—of Frances Howard and Robert Carr. It is in Chapman's most allusive and thorniest style, but is less interesting intrinsically than as having given occasion to an indignant prose vindication by the poet, which, considering his self-evident honesty, is the most valuable ...
— A History of English Literature - Elizabethan Literature • George Saintsbury
... and for a time talk ceased to be allusive. But later, over our coffee, while the band was playing loudly some new American march, and Carlotta and Pasquale were laughing together, ...
— The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne • William J. Locke
... Garde' loses in appreciation by assuming familiarity on the part of the reader with all the details of the story. It is too allusive. It is a description more of Launcelot's remorse than of the crime which occasions it. As to the other classic themes, they probably avail as little to the reputation of the author as did the elegant quotations which he inflicted upon the South Australian legislators. ...
— Australian Writers • Desmond Byrne


Words linked to "Allusive" :   allusiveness, allude, indirect


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