| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | al·le·ga·tion |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   l  -g  sh n |
| NOUN: | 1. Something alleged; an assertion: allegations of disloyalty. 2. The act of alleging. 3. A statement asserting something without proof: The newspaper's charges of official wrongdoing were mere allegations. 4. Law An assertion made by a party that must be proved or supported with evidence. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French allégation, from Latin all gti , allgtin-, from allgtus, past participle of allgre, to dispatch, adduce : ad-, ad- + lgre, to depute; see legate.
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