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allege
Part of speech: VerbTo produce as argument, or excuse; affirm; assert.
Usage examples "allege":- They can allege no better grounds for their incredulity than that the thing has an air of the fabulous and horrible about it. - "Popular Adventure Tales", Mayne Reid.
- What more could the worst enemy of private capitalism allege against it, or what stronger reason could he give for demanding that some radically new system be at least given a trial, than the fact which its defenders stated in this argument for retaining it- namely, that under it the masses were always hungry? - "Equality", Edward Bellamy.
- A petition was read from Madame la Princesse, desiring that the Princes should be brought to the Louvre and remain in the custody, of one of the King's officers, and that the Solicitor- General be sent for to say what he had to allege against their innocence, and that in case he should have nothing solid to offer they be set at liberty. - "The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, Complete", Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz.