Definitions for allege
əˈlɛdʒal·lege

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To ALLEGEverb

   Etymology: allego, Lat.

   1. To affirm; to declare; to maintain.2. To plead as an excuse, or produce as an argument.

   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.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

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1. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 2 votes

1. Allegeverb

   to bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact

2. Allegeverb

   to cite or quote; as, to allege the authority of a judge

3. Allegeverb

   to produce or urge as a reason, plea, or excuse; as, he refused to lend, alleging a resolution against lending

4. Allegeverb

   to alleviate; to lighten, as a burden or a trouble

5. Etymology: [See Allay.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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 TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. allege

   A French ballast-boat.

British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'allege' in Verbs Frequency: #755

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of allege in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of allege in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of allege in a Sentence

1. Susan Rice:

   As my critics allege, I am rather direct, i assure you that President Obama will be just as direct when he sees President Xi.

2. Jake Wark:

   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.

3. John DeMarco:

   As of right now, we have very little information, not any more information than I alluded to in court, there’s these two charges that allege possession of contraband that appears to be cocaine and an allegation that there was a firearm inside the home that was not registered to anybody that they believed to be residing in the home.

4. Ben Sasse:

   Based on what I've read in their filings, when President Donald Trump campaign lawyers have stood before courts under oath, they have repeatedly refused to actually allege grand fraud -- because there are legal consequences for lying to judges, president Donald Trump lost Michigan by more than 100,000 votes, and the campaign and its allies have lost in or withdrawn from all five lawsuits in Michigan for being unable to produce any evidence.

5. Mike Schmidt:

   In this case, we allege that no legal justification existed for Officer Budworth's deployment of force, and that the deployment of force was legally excessive under the circumstances.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=allege
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=allege
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allege
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/allege
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=allege
7. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=allege