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Alledge vs. Allege

Alledge and Allege Definitions

Alledge

Obsolete spelling of allege

Allege

To assert to be true; affirm
Alleging his innocence of the charge.

Alledge

See Allege.

Allege

To assert prior to a final determination
The indictment alleges that the commissioner took bribes.

Allege

To state (a plea or excuse, for example) in support or denial of a claim or accusation
The defendant alleges temporary insanity.

Allege

(Archaic) To bring forward as an authority.
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Allege

To state under oath, to plead.

Allege

(archaic) To cite or quote an author or his work for or against.

Allege

(transitive) To adduce (something) as a reason, excuse, support etc.

Allege

(transitive) To make a claim as justification or proof; to make an assertion without proof.
The agency alleged that my credit history had problems.

Allege

(obsolete) To lighten, diminish.

Allege

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

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

Allege

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

Allege

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

Allege

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

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