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Asserts vs Alleges - What's the difference?

asserts | alleges |

As verbs the difference between asserts and alleges

is that asserts is (assert) while alleges is .

asserts

English

Verb

(head)
  • (assert)

  • assert

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computer science) an assert statement; a section of source code which tests whether an expected condition is true.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
  • , author=Colin Allen , title=Do I See What You See? , volume=100, issue=2, page=168 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.}}
    he would often assert his beliefs to us
  • To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.
  • to assert one's authority
    Salman Rushdie has asserted his right ... to be identified as the author of this work
  • To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
  • The quasi-judicial pre-grant process of asserting patent rights and appeals procedures during patent examination; 'to assert' patent rights means to defend or maintain patent rights.
  • (computer science) To make true; to make equal to 1. (rfex)
  • Synonyms

    * affirm * asseverate * aver

    Anagrams

    * * * * *

    alleges

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (allege)
  • ----

    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 soverayntĂ© 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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