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Definition of Alledging
1. alledge [v] - See also: alledge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alledging
Literary usage of Alledging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Goldsmith's Roman History: Abridged by Himself, for the Use of Schools by Oliver Goldsmith (1825)
"... with the senators, n, alledging, that their tender age was least capable of
sustaining the rigours of slavery. concerning the payment of their debts. ..."
2. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"Sueden with 40000 Janizaries, Tartars, and Spahis, into his own country, alledging
that 'twas necessary to curb the growing power of the czar, ..."
3. The Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson ... Captain by Thomas Hutchinson, Peter Orlando Hutchinson (1884)
"and charge Guignes with the loss, alledging they acted as his Factors, which he
utterly denies. No news yet of any letters by Lyde, nor are any yet come to ..."
4. The Lauderdale Papers by Osmund Airy, John Maitland Lauderdale (1884)
"... advises to make the Commission for bribing last till the King recall it,
alledging there must some limitation of time in it, and I think it can do no ..."
5. Burke, Select Works by Edmund Burke (1898)
"But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alledging
a false fact, or promulgating mischievous maxims, on the other. ..."
6. A Treatise on the Game Laws, and on Fisheries: With an Appendix, Containing by Joseph Chitty (1812)
"... and he must maintain his several fishery as a gift to him of common right,
without alledging continuance of time, whereof memory runs not, &c, ..."
7. The History of the Life of King Henry the Second: And the Age in which He by George Lyttelton Lyttelton (1777)
"^isor^er> alledging, "that, without the au- " thority of the pope, he could not
change the ... alledging ..."
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