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Suspects vs Alleges - What's the difference?

suspects | alleges |

As verbs the difference between suspects and alleges

is that suspects is (suspect) while alleges is .

As a noun suspects

is .

suspects

English

Noun

(head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (suspect)
  • ----

    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 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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