Impute vs Allege - What's the difference?
impute | allege |
To reckon as pertaining or attributable; to charge; to ascribe; to attribute; to set to the account of; to charge to one as the author, responsible originator, or possessor; -- generally in a bad sense.
* 1751 , (Thomas Gray), , lines 37–40:
* 1856 February, , “(Oliver Goldsmith)” in the (eighth edition), volume and page numbers unknown:
* 1956–1960 , (second edition, 1960), chapter ii: “Motives and Motivation”, page 29:
(theology) To ascribe (sin or righteousness) (to) someone by substitution.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin (2010), page 607:
To take account of; to consider; to regard.
* 1788 , (Edward Gibbon), (The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) VI, chapter lxiv, “A.D. 1355–1391: The Emperor John Palæologus; Discord of the Greeks”,
To attribute or credit to.
To attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.
(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.
As verbs the difference between impute and allege
is that impute is while allege is .impute
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Verb
(imput)- Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, // If mem’ry o’er their tomb no trophies raise, // Where thro’ the long-drawn isle and fretted vault, // The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
- He was vain, sensual, frivolous, profuse, improvident. One vice of a darker shade was imputed to him, envy.
- We ascribe or impute motives to others and avow them or confess to them in ourselves.
- To use the technical language of theologians, God through his grace ‘imputes ’ the merits of the crucified and risen Christ to a fallen human being who remains without inherent merit, and who without this ‘imputation’ would not be ‘made’ righteous at all.
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- They ?erved with honour in the wars of Bajazet; but a plan of fortifying Con?tantinople excited his jealou?y: he threatened their lives; the new works were in?tantly demoli?hed; and we ?hall be?tow a prai?e, perhaps above the merit of Palæologus, if we impute this la?t humiliation as the cau?e of his death.
- We imputed this quotation to Shakespeare.
- People impute great cleverness to cats.
- The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness.
Synonyms
* ascribe, assign, attribute, charge, reckon, consider, imply, insinuateReferences
* *Anagrams
* ----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.