Allege vs Mutter - What's the difference?
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(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.
A repressed or obscure utterance; an instance of muttering.
(in Indian restaurants) peas
To utter words, especially complaints or angry expressions, indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; to say under one's breath.
* {{quote-news
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, date=June 28
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To speak softly and incoherently, or with imperfect articulations.
* Dryden
To make a sound with a low, rumbling noise.
* Alexander Pope
As verbs the difference between allege and mutter
is that allege is to lighten, diminish while mutter is to utter words, especially complaints or angry expressions, indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; to say under one's breath.As a noun mutter is
a repressed or obscure utterance; an instance of muttering.allege
English
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.
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English
Noun
(en noun)- The prisoners were docile, and accepted their lot with barely a mutter .
Derived terms
* mutter paneerVerb
(en verb)- You could hear the students mutter as they were served sodden spaghetti, yet again, in the cafeteria.
- The beggar muttered words of thanks, as passersby dropped coins in his cup.
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- The asylum inmate muttered some doggerel about chains and pains to himself, over and over.
- Meantime your filthy foreigner will stare, / And mutter to himself.
- April could hear the delivery van's engine muttering in the driveway.
- Thick lightnings flash, the muttering thunder rolls.
