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allusion
Part of Speech: noun
Results: 2
Examples of usage:
- I felt, too, that my last appearance in character in a " Family Party," was any thing but successful; and I trembled lest, in the discussion of the subject, some confounded allusion to my adventure at Cheltenham might come out. - "The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete", Charles James Lever (1806-1872).
- If he wrote to her, should he simply ask for money, and make no allusion to his love? - "Can You Forgive Her?", Anthony Trollope.
- This Archbishop was Manning himself, and the allusion was to a letter addressed to him by an English minister, saying in substance that in England it was the most vehement Protestants, and those most notorious for their hostility to the Catholic Church, who eagerly desired to see infallibility and the Syllabus made into dogmas, and that the present policy of Rome had so greatly increased the anti- Catholic feeling of the country that every step taken by the Government to extend the rights of Catholics and improve the social condition of Catholic Ireland met with the most persistent opposition. - "Letters From Rome on the Council", Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger.