Allegiance
[ə'liːdʒ(ə)ns] or [ə'lidʒəns]
Definition
(noun.) the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign).
Checker: Spenser--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) Devotion; loyalty; as, allegiance to science.
Edited by Julia
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Fealty, fidelity, loyalty.
Checked by Gerald
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Subjection, obedience, loyalty, fealty, homage
ANT:Disloyalty, rebellion, resistance, disaffection, malcontentment, treason
Typist: Wesley
Definition
n. the duty of a subject to his liege or sovereign.—adj. Allē′giant.
Checker: Virgil
Examples
- Be that as it may, you are not one of us; you owe us no allegiance. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Another device is the separation of municipal, state and national elections: to hold them all at the same time is an inducement to prevent the voter from splitting his allegiance. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Kantos Kan with the others who had sworn allegiance to me still stood upon the Throne of Righteousness with me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- We might as well resolve the obligation to abstain from the possessions of others, into the obligation of a promise, as that of allegiance. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- His foreign birth, and he refused to throw off his allegiance to his native country, alone prevented him from filling the first offices in the state. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The law-giver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- True, he sent me from his presence, and refused my homage--so far I owe him neither favour nor allegiance--but I will not lift hand against him. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He admitted no allegiance, he gave no adherence anywhere. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- So far the conclusion is immediate and direct, concerning the natural obligation which we have to allegiance. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The same promise, then, which binds them to obedience, ties them down to a particular person, and makes him the object of their allegiance. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The same may be said of allegiance, of the laws of nations, of modesty, and of good-manners. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I cannot accept on His behalf a divided allegiance: it must be entire. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The others, who had not opened their mouths after the change of allegiance, were all leaning forward to listen now. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- To which we may add, that a man living under an absolute government, would owe it no allegiance; since, by its very nature, it depends not on consent. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This immediately roused a poignant pity and allegiance in Gerald's heart, always shadowed by contempt and by unadmitted enmity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The loyalties and allegiances to-day are at best provisional loyalties and allegiances. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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