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Allegiance

//əˈliː.d͡ʒəns// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler. countable, uncountable

    "With what a feeling of joyful security did her heart go back to its old allegiance! Till now she had scarcely been aware of its strength, for she had known it but by its disappointment—now she fully admitted that early and passionate emotion with which Robert Evelyn had inspired her was indeed her destiny;..."

  2. 2
    the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action wordnet
  3. 3
    the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign) wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English alegiaunce, from Anglo-Norman alegaunce (“loyalty of a liege-servant to one's lord”), variant of Old French ligeance, from lige (“vassal, liegeman”). More at liege.

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