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Allegation definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ALLEGA'TION, n.
1. Affirmation; positive assertion or declaration.
2. That which is affirmed or asserted; that which is offered as a plea, excuse or justification.
3. In ecclesiastical courts, a formal complaint, or declaration of charges.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: (law) a formal accusation against somebody (often in a court of law); "an allegation of malpractice"
2: statements affirming or denying certain matters of fact that you are prepared to prove [syn: allegation, allegement]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century 1. the act of alleging 2. a positive assertion; specifically a statement by a party to a legal action of what the party undertakes to prove 3. an assertion unsupported and by implication regarded as unsupportable <vague allegations of misconduct>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 an assertion, esp. an unproved one. 2 the act or an instance of alleging. Etymology: ME f. F allégation or L allegatio f. allegare allege

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Allegation Al`le*ga"tion, n. [L. allegatio, fr. allegare, allegatum, to send a message, cite; later, to free by giving reasons; ad + legare to send, commission. Cf. Allege and Adlegation.] 1. The act of alleging or positively asserting. 2. That which is alleged, asserted, or declared; positive assertion; formal averment I thought their allegation but reasonable. --Steele. 3. (Law) A statement by a party of what he undertakes to prove, -- usually applied to each separate averment; the charge or matter undertaken to be proved.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(allegations) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. An allegation is a statement saying that someone has done something wrong. The company has denied the allegations... Allegations of brutality and theft have been levelled at the army. = claim N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Declaration, affirmation, averment, assertion, statement. 2. Excuse, plea.

Moby Thesaurus

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