Definition of Alluding

1. Verb. (present participle of allude) ¹

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Definition of Alluding

1. allude [v] - See also: allude

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alluding

allrounders
alls
allseed
allseeds
allsorts
allspice
allspice oil
allspice tree
allspices
allthough
alluaivite
alluaudite
allude
alluded
alludes
alluding (current term)
allulose
allumette
alluminor
alluminors
allurance
allurances
allure
allured
allurement
allurements
allurer
allurers
allures
alluring

Literary usage of Alluding

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"alluding to the greatness of both the uncle and the nephew, the former at the head of the Allied, and the latter as commander of the French and Spanish ..."

2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
"... HIS THINKING I WAS alluding то HIM ! " &c., &c. ITALY AT BOMB. And conscience daring on itself to lean, The couch of mortal danger did attest. ..."

3. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1902)
"... no less weighty to an Index that repealed the laws of a General Council. without alluding to the Roman, but not without borrowing largely from it. ..."

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