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allegest

allegest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of allege.

Meaning of allege

Verb (1)

allege (third-person singular simple present alleges, present participle alleging, simple past and past participle alleged)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To state under oath, to plead.
  2. (archaic) To cite or quote an author or his work for or against.
  3. (transitive) To adduce (something) as a reason, excuse, support etc.
    • I will further alleage a storie[…]to make us palpably feele his naturall condition.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 39, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    plead
  4. (transitive) To make a claim as justification or proof; to make an assertion without proof.
    • The agency alleged that my credit history had problems.

Verb (2)

allege (third-person singular simple present alleges, present participle alleging, simple past and past participle alleged)

  1. (obsolete) To lighten, diminish.
    • and suffir never your soveraynté to be alledged with your subjects,1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich]...

Origin of allegest

allege + -est

Questions about allegest

What is allegest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Allegest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of allege.

Words near allegest in the dictionary

  1. allegement
  2. allegements
  3. alleger
  4. allegers
  5. alleges
  6. allegest
  7. allegeth
  8. allegge
  9. allegged
  10. allegges
  11. allegging

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Adapted from Wiktionary: allegest (page history and authors); allege (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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