illusive

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No other writer and traveller of the period possessed to a more marked degree that sense of generous pity which makes the unfortunate appear to us in an illusive, almost ideal aspect.

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  1. adjective Illusory.

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  • This Image is altogether unsatisfactory, illusive, and even in some measure tragical to me! —  The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II
  • Endless Things is illusive, allusive and erudite: it demands high levels of concentration, but repays that with the unalloyed pleasure of its wit and revelatory storytelling. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#215
  • The fact we don't have it in the west is not because it is illusive or hard to find., —  home
  • The drowning reporter is grasping at any life raft -- no matter how illusive or false. —  CAMERA Snapshots
  • The fate of Kirkuk remains illusive, as their parliament to be the only appropriate venue to solve the issue. —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
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  1. = Spanish ilusivo = Portuguese illusivo; from Latin as if *illusivus, from illudere, inludere, past participle illusus, inlusus, illude: see illude.
 

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