Allude ( page 36 ).
Questions.
1. What is the distinctive sense of allude? of advert? of refer? 2. How do the above words compare with mention as to explicitness? 3. How do hint and insinuate differ?
Examples.
Late in the eighteenth century Cowper did not venture to do more than —— to the great allegorist [Bunyan], saying:
"I name thee not, lest so despised a name
Should move a sneer at thy deserved fame."