[ UK /ɐlˈiːd‍ʒəns/ ]
[ US /əˈɫidʒəns/ ]
NOUN
  1. the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign)
  2. the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action
    they felt no loyalty to a losing team
    his long commitment to public service
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How To Use allegiance In A Sentence

  • Although Jameson is clear-eyed about the corrosive effects of modernity, his methodology nevertheless seemed to require his allegiance to secularization and to convergence theories of modernization; moreover, the acuity and insight of the readings produced by this methodology served to justify that faith a posteriori. Introduction
  • But it is not only Marxists who argue that bureaucracies may owe their primary allegiance to a particular class.
  • Soldiers must swear allegiance to the King.
  • The string-pullers behind this system have no national allegiances.
  • How can you justify allegiance to a different city if you do not live there, or are not from there?
  • A citizen of the United States, is a _person_ owing allegiance to the government; but then all persons are not _men_; and the definition of "citizeness" is a female citizen. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III)
  • Can a newly minted American renounce his allegiance to Germany but retain his allegiance to Bavaria?
  • Their allegiance is still to the Queen.
  • They must know the national anthem and pledge the oath of allegiance. Times, Sunday Times
  • In 1189 King William had taken advantage of Richard's financial needs to buy his freedom from English allegiance for 10,000 marks.
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