Talk:alegge

RFV discussion: August 2023–March 2024

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alegge

Middle English only? Pinch88 (talk) 23:49, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

Probably, even in the Spenser book (1579 edition) it's glossed. All the other EEBO hits are variant spellings of allege. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 09:08, 20 August 2023 (UTC)

• RFV failed Spenser quote to Citations Denazz (talk) 16:33, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

allege

"To lighten, diminish."

Adding this one here since it's also cited to Spenser and a Middle English citation. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 21:07, 20 August 2023 (UTC)

@Al-Muqanna: Shouldn't this be rfv-sense? Chuck Entz (talk) 21:19, 20 August 2023 (UTC)

@Chuck Entz: It's for an entire etymology, which I've seen the full RFV template used for fairly regularly, but since the etymology has one sense I suppose it doesn't matter, I can swap it. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 21:24, 20 August 2023 (UTC)

You should at least mention that it's only for Etymology 2, so people aren't wondering why this doesn't pass by virtue of clearly widespread use. Chuck Entz (talk) 21:30, 20 August 2023 (UTC)

Well, have added the gloss at issue in case people were confused. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 21:37, 20 August 2023 (UTC)