give color

give color, vb. Hist. To admit, either expressly or impliedly by silence, that an opponent’s allegations appear to be meritorious. • In common-law pleading, a defendant’s plea of confession and avoidance had to give color to the plaintiff’s allegations in the complaint or the plea would be fatally defective. See COLOR(2).

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