What does allegiance mean?

Definitions for allegiance
əˈli dʒənsal·le·giance

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. commitment, allegiance, loyalty, dedicationnoun

    the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action

    "his long commitment to public service"; "they felt no loyalty to a losing team"

  2. allegiance, fealtynoun

    the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign)

Wiktionary

  1. allegiancenoun

    Loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler.

  2. Etymology: From aliegiaunce, from legaunce, from legeance, from lege, liege, of origin. More at liege.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Allegiancenoun

    The duty of subjects to the government.

    Etymology: allegeance, Fr.

    I did pluck allegiance from mens hearts,
    Loud shouts and salutations from their mouths,
    Even in the presence of the crowned king. William Shakespeare, Henry IV.

    We charge you on allegiance to ourselves,
    To hold your slaught’ring hands, and keep the peace. William Shakespeare, Henry VI. p. i.

    The house of commons, to whom every day petitions are directed by the several counties of England, professing all allegiance to them, govern absolutely; the lords concurring, or rather submitting to whatsoever is proposed. Edward Hyde.

Wikipedia

  1. Allegiance

    An allegiance is a duty of fidelity said to be owed, or freely committed, by the people, subjects or citizens to their state or sovereign.

ChatGPT

  1. allegiance

    Allegiance is a strong loyalty or commitment to a particular person, group, cause, or entity. It often refers to the duty of a citizen to their country or of a subject to their sovereign or government, but it can also be applied more broadly to any sort of devoted attachment or dedication.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Allegiancenoun

    the tie or obligation, implied or expressed, which a subject owes to his sovereign or government; the duty of fidelity to one's king, government, or state

  2. Allegiancenoun

    devotion; loyalty; as, allegiance to science

Wikidata

  1. Allegiance

    An allegiance is a duty of fidelity said to be owed by a subject or a citizen to his/her state or sovereign.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Allegiance

    al-lēj′i-ans, n. the duty of a subject to his liege or sovereign.—adj. Allē′giant. [L. ad, to, and Liege.]

CrunchBase

  1. Allegiance

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Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. allegiance

    The legal obedience of a subject to his sovereign in return for the protection afforded; a debt which, in a natural-born subject, cannot be cancelled by any change of time, or place, or circumstance, without the united consent of the legislature.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. allegiance

    In law, implies the obedience which is due to the laws. Oath of Allegiance is that taken by an alien, by which he adopts America and renounces the authority of a foreign government. It is also applied to the oath taken by officers and soldiers in pledge of their fidelity to the state.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of allegiance in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of allegiance in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of allegiance in a Sentence

  1. Christian Crawford:

    The graduation started off normal – pledge of allegiance, then speeches.

  2. Eric Swalwell:

    You can be the President's defense attorney or America's Attorney General, but you can't be both, he came to this job already biased. Today, he made a show of allegiance to the President over The American people by declaring' no collusion' and excusing the President on the basis of his emotional state. He has proved that he's an embedded Donald Trump ally who puts this President's political future above of the rule of law. That makes him unfit to serve. He must resign.

  3. Attorney General Loretta Lynch:

    What we’re not going to do is further proclaim this man’s pledges of allegiance to terrorist groups, and further his propaganda, we are not going to hear him make his assertions of allegiance [to the Islamic State].

  4. Abbas Ibrahim:

    In the recent period about 700 new fighters pledged allegiance, and so they are now more than 1,000 fighters.

  5. The President:

    During the Democrat Convention the words' under God' were removed from the Pledge of Allegiance, not once but twice.

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