Crossword-Solution: ILLUSION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Illusion | n. | An unreal image presented to the bodily or mental vision; a deceptive appearance; a false show; mockery; hallucination. |
| Illusion | n. | Hence: Anything agreeably fascinating and charning; enchantment; witchery; glamour. |
| Illusion | n. | A sensation originated by some external object, but so modified as in any way to lead to an erroneous perception; as when the rolling of a wagon is mistaken for thunder. |
| Illusion | n. | A plain, delicate lace, usually of silk, used for veils, scarfs, dresses, etc. |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with ILLUSION (5)
Sometimes, as she lay thus luxuriously idle, her eyes closed, she used to have an illusion of being lifted up bodily and carried lightly by some one very strong.
This very morning the illusion completed its disappearance, and, as it were, all of a sudden, Troy hated himself.
Probably it’s nothing more than an illusion, and there are no sunflowers here at all.” “Then let us shut our eyes and walk forward,” suggested the Woodman.
Then, that glorious vision of doing good, which is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds, arose before him, and he even saw himself in the illusion with some influence to guide this raging Revolution that was running so fearfully wild.
Whereas the lie in words is in certain cases useful and not hateful; in dealing with enemies--that would be an instance; or again, when those whom we call our friends in a fit of madness or illusion are going to do some harm, then it is useful and is a sort of medicine or preventive; also in the tales of mythology, of which we were just now speaking--because we do not know the truth about ancient times, we make falsehood as much like truth as we can, and so turn it to account.
Quotes with ILLUSION (3)
Even at that time the hope of leaving behind messages in bottles on the flood of barbarism bursting on Europe was an amiable illusion: the desperate letters stuck in the mud of the spirit of rejuvenesence and were worked up by a band of Noble Human-Beings and other riff-raff into highly artistic but inexpensive wall-adornments. Only since then has progress in communications really got into its stride. Who, in the end, is to take it amiss if even the freest of free spirits no …
I can never feel that the Illusion of Life is a truth as long as any illusion reflects unreality; however, even an untruth is a truth in its turn.
Who prays at help in the Illusion of his Life does not understand that his only aid is death
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1944–2018).