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nonallusive en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + allusive.

Meanings

1. Not allusive; making no allusions; straightforward.
   • The Golden Notebook has been criticized for discussing the inadequacy of language in adequate language, for "talk[ing] about disorder in a very orderly way—in an accessible style, and a determinedly everyday vocabulary, one usually nonallusive, even pedestrian." 1994, Gayle Greene, Doris Lessing: The Poetics of Change, page 117:
   • According to Judd, in his polemical statement of aesthetic purpose "Specific Objects," written the year he created Untitled, the intransigent materiality of his nonallusive objects would provide a "credible" experience for viewers, free from any external connotations. 2013, Robert Slifkin, Out of Time, page 19:
   • Some references to the rising of the sun or moon appear simply to signal a new day or night, and some of these nonallusive references have been omitted from the following list (though, too, some of the references that have been included may indeed be nonallusive in the final analysis) . 2013, John Sepich, Notes on Blood Meridian:

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