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noun
1.
the loyalty of a citizen to his or her government or of a subject to his or her sovereign.
2.
loyalty or devotion to some person, group, cause, or the like.
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Example Sentences
- Libraries now regard their users as customers whose needs should be met in order to secure their allegiance.
- You have seen duty and allegiance in the determined faces of our soldiers.
- He is not known to have any party allegiance.
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Word Origin & History
allegiance
c.1400, from Anglo-Fr. legaunce "loyalty of a liege-man to his lord," from O.Fr. legeance, from liege (see liege); erroneously associated with L. ligare "to bind;" corrupted in spelling by confusion with the now-obsolete legal term allegeance "alleviation." General figurative
EXPANDsense of "recognition of claims to respect or duty" is attested from 1732.
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