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Allege vs Alleviate - What's the difference?

allege | alleviate |

As verbs the difference between allege and alleviate

is that allege is while alleviate is to make less severe, as a pain or difficulty.

allege

English

Alternative forms

* alledg (obsolete) * alledge (obsolete) * allegge (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) alegier, from (etyl) .

Verb

(alleg)
  • (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:
  • 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)
  • (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:
  • I will further alleage a storieto make us palpably feele his naturall condition.
  • To make a claim as justification or proof; to make an assertion without proof.
  • See also

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    alleviate

    English

    Verb

  • To make less severe, as a pain or difficulty.
  • Alcohol is often a cheap tool to alleviate the stress of a hard day.

    Synonyms

    * address, allay, ameliorate, assuage, ease, mitigate, relieve