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ALLEGIANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action
Example:
they felt no loyalty to a losing team
Synonyms:
allegiance; commitment; dedication; loyalty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("allegiance" is a kind of...):
cooperation (joint operation or action)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "allegiance"):
communalism (loyalty and commitment to the interests of your own minority or ethnic group rather than to society as a whole)
consecration (a solemn commitment of your life or your time to some cherished purpose (to a service or a goal))
devotion (commitment to some purpose)
enlistment (the act of enlisting (as in a military service))
faith (loyalty or allegiance to a cause or a person)
Derivation:
allegiant (steadfast in devotion (especially to your lawful monarch or government))
Sense 2
Meaning:
The loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign)
Synonyms:
allegiance; fealty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("allegiance" is a kind of...):
loyalty; trueness (the quality of being loyal)
Derivation:
allegiant (steadfast in devotion (especially to your lawful monarch or government))
Context examples:
Once again he lived in the lair with Kiche, crept trembling to the knees of Grey Beaver to tender his allegiance, ran for his life before Lip-lip and all the howling bedlam of the puppy-pack.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
There was something in the fibre of White Fang's being that made his lordship a thing to be desired, else he would not have come back from the Wild when he did to tender his allegiance.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
