Aggrandize vs Allege - What's the difference?
aggrandize | allege | Related terms |
To make great; to enlarge; to increase.
To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; applied to persons, countries, etc.
* Prescott
To make appear great or greater; to exalt.
To increase or become great.
(obsolete) To lighten, diminish.
*, Bk.V:
*:and suffir never your soveraynté to be alledged with your subjects, nother the soveraygne of your persone and londys.
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
(obsolete) To state under oath, to plead.
(archaic) To cite or quote an author or his work for'' or ''against .
To adduce (something) as a reason, excuse, support etc.
*, I.39:
To make a claim as justification or proof; to make an assertion without proof.
Aggrandize is a related term of allege.
As verbs the difference between aggrandize and allege
is that aggrandize is to make great; to enlarge; to increase while allege is .aggrandize
English
Alternative forms
* aggrandise (mainly British)Verb
(aggrandiz)- to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress
- his scheme for aggrandizing his son
- (Charles Lamb)
allege
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Alternative forms
* alledg (obsolete) * alledge (obsolete) * allegge (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) alegier, from (etyl) .Verb
(alleg)- Hart that is inly hurt, is greatly eased / With hope of thing, that may allegge his smart.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) aleggen, from (etyl) aleger, the form from (etyl) esligier, from .Verb
(alleg)- I will further alleage a storieto make us palpably feele his naturall condition.
