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verb

Allege v. t. (past & past part. alleged; pres. part. alleging)

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

To cite or quote; as, to allege the authority of a judge. (Archaic)

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

Synonyms: To bring forward; adduce; advance; assign; produce; declare; affirm; assert; aver; predicate.

Allege v. t. To alleviate; to lighten, as a burden or a trouble. (Obs.)

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"Alleged" Quotes from Famous Books

... out the discrepancy between the age (twenty-seven years) assigned, on the mural tablet, to Anne Bronte at the time of her death in 1849, and the alleged fact that she was born at Thornton, from which place Mr. Bronte removed on February 25th, 1820. I was aware of the discrepancy, but I did not think it of sufficient consequence to be rectified by an examination of the register of births. ...

— The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Volume 1 • Elizabeth Gaskell

... ourselves afterwards; but now, since we were, however unwittingly, there, I feel that I have some right to remind the reader that our enemy (so far as we are of Puritan descent) Archbishop Laud consecrated the church with ceremonies of such high ecclesiastical character that his part in them was alleged against him, and did something to bring him to the block. That Inigo Jones is said to have helped in designing the church, and that the great Holbein is believed to be buried in it, and would have had a monument there if the Earl of Arundel could have found ...

— London Films • W.D. Howells

... the consul generalship at London, now held by General Badeau; another is Charge d'Affaires to Denmark, held by Mr. Cramer; another is the mission to Switzerland, held by Mr. Fish, a son of the former Secretary of State.... It was proposed to displace them all, not for any alleged fault of theirs, or for any alleged need or advantage of the public service, but in order to give the great offices of Collector of the Port of New York to Mr. William H. Robertson as a 'reward' for certain acts of his, said to have aided in making ...

— The Cleveland Era - A Chronicle of the New Order in Politics, Volume 44 in The - Chronicles of America Series • Henry Jones Ford

... a scandal?' enquired Michael. '"The Chelsea Mystery; alleged innocence of Pitman"? How would that ...

— The Wrong Box • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

... became known," said the news story, "that the schoolmaster had bet his job on the proficiency of his school in studies supposed and alleged to have been studiously neglected, the excitement rose to fever heat. Local sports bet freely on the result, the odds being eight to five on General Proficiency against the field. The field was Jim Irwin and his school. And ...

— The Brown Mouse • Herbert Quick

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