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allusiveness|əˈl(j)uːsɪvnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
1. Symbolical or figurative quality or manner. arch.
1669H. More Seven Churches ix. (T.) The multifarious allusiveness of the prophetical style. 1875M. A. Lower Engl. Surn. (1875) II. App. 128 The allusiveness so much objected to by the lovers of simple and non-emblematical heraldry.
2. The quality of containing or making covert or indirect reference.
1791Whitaker Rev. Gibbon (R.) The quick and short allusiveness of it [Gibbon's language]. 1863Sat. Rev. 415 Half-jocular allusiveness, which is incomparably more suggestive and more full of temptation than anything else. 1871R. H. Hutton Ess. II. 299 The indirectness, the allusiveness, the educated reticence of the artists. |