allegern.
/əˈlɛdʒə/, U.S. /əˈlɛdʒər/ A person who alleges something (in various senses of allege v.1).
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the mind > language > statement > assertion without proof > [noun] > one who
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1565 N. Sanders Supper of Our Lord ii. f. 90 The alleger, wold haue the wordes taken, as though the body of Christ, were not upon the altar.
1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 64 A long speache..against M. Heskins the alledger of it.
1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 67 This alleadger of him fareth as ill as in the former allegation.
a1691 R. Boyle Wks. (1772) I. 439 The narrative, if we believe it as confidently as the famous alleger of it appears to do.
1732 Court Bishop No Apostolical Bishop i. 22 You may reason, as much as you please, with these Allegers of Scripture and Antiquity.
1774 Decisions Court of Session till 1764 1 452 The Lords did not find the want of these words to be a nullity, unless the alledger offered to prove, that the copy was fraudulently taken down.
1804 J. Whitaker Anc. Cathedral Cornwall Historically Surveyed II. vi. 190 Cressy knew just as little upon the point as the very allegers themselves.
1888 Southeastern Reporter 3 136 The proof of fraud rests on the alleger.
1950 Baseball Digest Nov. 84 Babe..wound up by challenging any of the allegers to step forth and say what Vidmer had quoted (without naming) them as saying.
1997 D. Lebedoff Cleaning Up ii. 26 Angry shareholders, dissatisfied customers, the allegers of mistreatment and malpractice.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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