All 13 Uses of
allege
in
Middlemarch
- As to the excessive religiousness alleged against Miss Brooke, he had a very indefinite notion of what it consisted in, and thought that it would die out with marriage.†
Chpt 1
- Miss Brooke was certainly very naive with all her alleged cleverness.†
Chpt 1
- I protest against any absolute conclusion, any prejudice derived from Mrs. Cadwallader's contempt for a neighboring clergyman's alleged greatness of soul, or Sir James Chettam's poor opinion of his rival's legs,—from Mr. Brooke's failure to elicit a companion's ideas, or from Celia's criticism of a middle-aged scholar's personal appearance.†
Chpt 1
- All these things might be alleged against Lydgate, but then, they are the periphrases of a polite preacher, who talks of Adam, and would not like to mention anything painful to the pew-renters.†
Chpt 2
- You will hear that pipe alleged against me by Bulstrode and Company.†
Chpt 2
- Other people would say so, and would allege that he was currying favor with Bulstrode for the sake of making himself important and getting on in the world.†
Chpt 2 *
- For that little episode of the alleged borrowing, in which he had made his father the agent in getting the Bulstrode certificate, was a new reason against going to his father for money towards meeting his actual debt.†
Chpt 3
- As to Will, though until his last defiant letter he had nothing definite which he would choose formally to allege against him, he felt himself warranted in believing that he was capable of any design which could fascinate a rebellious temper and an undisciplined impulsiveness.†
Chpt 4
- The service he could do to the cause of religion had been through life the ground he alleged to himself for his choice of action: it had been the motive which he had poured out in his prayers.†
Chpt 6
- I do not wish to allege anything against her.†
Chpt 6
- He sat up alone with him through the night, only ordering the housekeeper to lie down in her clothes, so as to be ready when he called her, alleging his own indisposition to sleep, and his anxiety to carry out the doctor's orders.†
Chpt 7
- And yet—and yet he may not be guilty of the last offence; and it is just possible that the change towards me may have been a genuine relenting—the effect of second thoughts such as he alleged.†
Chpt 8
- He would not allow her to read to him, and scarcely to sit with him, alleging nervous susceptibility to sounds and movements; yet she suspected that in shutting himself up in his private room he wanted to be busy with his papers.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(allege) claim
(In law, this is something that is said and is in need of proof or disproof.)