Allusions is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ALLUSIONS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• ALLUSION, the act of alluding
• the practice of making allusions
• an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference

Words related to ALLUSIONS

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How to use ALLUSIONS in a sentence

• His sermons had such direct reference, not only to the state of affairs, but the conduct of individuals, that they were shrunk from as personal allusions.
• The court took offence easily at political allusions and attempted to suppress them.
• The principal figure in the allusions of Eastern poetry is Solomon.
• Paul by name, and that the allusions to them in the genuine writings, except for these marked resemblances in the Old Testament quotations, are few and uncertain.
• He could not endure the glances and the allusions made by Dona Cinta.
• Allusions to his Private Life and Domestic Character.
• Figure 1, after De Bry and Lafitau, represents what the early writers called the Quiogozon, or charnel-house, and allusions will be found to it in other parts of this volume.
• There are some allusions to an interesting part of ancient story connected with Laleham, Dr.
• More varied are the allusions to rock-crystal or crystal, as the poet calls it.
• This list of symbolical allusions is recited by the priests, and forms an essential part of the ritual of worship.
• We have revealed in them the essence of all the hints and allusions contained in their Books.
• The Chinese Annals, supported by allusions in the inscriptions, state that this prince conquered Champa.
• We have no particulars of the event, nor are there more than allusions to it in the journal of the date or in the letters of contemporaries.
• In both of these journals there are frequent allusions to tea-parties and china.
• Curtis, playing upon a weakness of mine in the matter of literary allusions, suggested that I should substitute Niflheim for Ewigkeit as a simile.
• Even the large mass of people who subscribed to that Society knew its agent in Spain only by meagre allusions in the Annual Reports.
• Thomas would never be mentioned in any decent society without allusions to that unfortunate request for further evidence.
• I know of no spot where all the little incidents mentioned in the poem would exactly fit in, and a few of the local allusions are evidently by a stranger.
• The dress, from contemporary prints, can be easily made out, and the allusions of Pepys and Evelyn supply the names and materials of the garments.
• She continues for pages in the same strain with illustrative allusions to Caius Julius, Claudius, and Britannicus.
• Allusions to a common past were barred for excellent reasons, as between these two persons, save strictly in public.
• A note has been prefixed to each letter, printed in a more condensed form than the letter itself, and dealing with all the allusions contained in it.
• Here it is only touched upon to show the significance of one or two historical allusions in the book.
• The various allusions to these races met with in the pages of the older writers, and discussed in his, were to him what fairy tales are to us.
• It is lavishly embellished with Indian allusions, and expresses incidentally the very spirit of the East.
• How important this period of his life appeared in his own view, may be gathered from his allusions to it in later days.
• The speeches of the popular orators of that day were filled with distinct allusions to the Bible and these were quickly and clearly apprehended by the people.
• But these allusions are superficial and, except in the case of the Republic and the Laws, have no philosophical importance.

Similar words containing ALLUSION without suffix s

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