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. Whoopi Goldberg:

   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.

2. Whoopi Goldberg:

   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.

3. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov:

   If you allege this so confidently, present the facts. But nobody can present the facts, or doesn't want to.

4. Rand Paul:

   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.

5. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov:

   I say every time: if you allege this so confidently, present the facts. But nobody can present the facts, or doesn't want to - which it is, I don't know, so before demanding from us that we stop doing something, please present proof that we have done it.

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