ALLEGING

Verb

alleging

present participle of allege

Noun

alleging (plural allegings)

allegation

The archbishop said to me, All these allegings that thou bringest forth, are nothing else but proud presumptuousness.

Source: Wiktionary


ALLEGE

Al*lege", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Alleged; p. pr. & vb. n. Alleging.] Etym: [OE. aleggen to bring forward as evidence, OF. esligier to buy, prop. to free from legal difficulties, fr. an assumed LL. exlitigare; L. ex + litigare to quarrel, sue (see Litigate). The word was confused with L. allegare (see Allegation), and lex law. Cf. Allay.]

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

2. To cite or quote; as, to allege the authority of a judge. [Archaic]

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

Syn.

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

Al*lege", v. t. Etym: [See Allay.]

Definition: To alleviate; to lighten, as a burden or a trouble. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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