What does allege mean?
Definitions for allege
əˈlɛdʒal·lege
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Princeton's WordNet
allege, aver, sayverb
report or maintain
"He alleged that he was the victim of a crime"; "He said it was too late to intervene in the war"; "The registrar says that I owe the school money"
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To ALLEGEverb
Etymology: allego, Lat.
Surely the present form of church-government is such, as no law of God, or reason of man, hath hitherto been alleged, of force sufficient to prove they do ill, who, to the utmost of their power, withstand the alteration thereof. Richard Hooker, Preface.
If we forsake the ways of grace or goodness, we cannot allege any colour of ignorance, or want of instruction; we cannot say we have not learned them, or we could not. Thomas Sprat.
He hath a clear and full view, and there is no more to be alleged for his better information. John Locke.
Wikipedia
allege
In law, an allegation is a claim of an unproven fact by a party in a pleading, charge, or defense. Until they can be proved, allegations remain merely assertions.
ChatGPT
allege
To allege means to claim or assert that someone has done something wrong or illegal, typically without providing proof or evidence. It can also refer to making a statement or claim about something, often in a legal context, that is yet to be proven.
Webster Dictionary
Allegeverb
to bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact
Allegeverb
to cite or quote; as, to allege the authority of a judge
Allegeverb
to produce or urge as a reason, plea, or excuse; as, he refused to lend, alleging a resolution against lending
Allegeverb
to alleviate; to lighten, as a burden or a trouble
Etymology: [See Allay.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Allege
al-lej′, v.t. to produce as an argument or plea: to assert: (B.) to give proofs—n. Allegā′tion, an assertion.—p.adj. Alleged′, cited, quoted. [Through O. Fr. forms from Low L. ex-litigāre, to clear at law. See Allay above.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
allege
A French ballast-boat.
British National Corpus
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'allege' in Verbs Frequency: #755
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of allege in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of allege in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of allege in a Sentence
I did not say vaccines caused disorders, just that they were temporally related -- I did not allege causation. I support vaccines, I receive them myself and I had all of my children vaccinated, in fact today, I received the booster shot for the vaccines I got when I went to Guatemala last year.
As my critics allege, I am rather direct, i assure you that President Obama will be just as direct when he sees President Xi.
The View, quite honestly, you know, look, I'm sorry, having been on both sides of this where people allege that you do something, it doesn't matter now.
Just because they allege The SEC doesn't mean The SEC's true.
We expect to select a new court date in the coming days and then set the amended trial track. The Suffolk indictments allege two counts of first-degree murder for the July 16, 2012, shooting deaths of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado in Boston's South End; three counts of armed assault with intent to murder and one count of assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon for shots fired at three surviving victims; and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm.
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- يزعمونArabic
- твърдяBulgarian
- al·legarCatalan, Valencian
- behauptenGerman
- ισχυρίζομαιGreek
- afirmar, alegarSpanish
- ادعاPersian
- vannoa, väittääFinnish
- prétendreFrench
- cuir às lethScottish Gaelic
- 喧伝, 言い張る, 確言, 主張, 言い切るJapanese
- alegarPortuguese
- påståSwedish
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