What are the definitions in the Webster's dictionary for allegiance?
Allegiance
Definition of Allegiance
Al`le´giance
n.
1.
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.
2.
Devotion; loyalty; as, allegiance to science.
Hear me, recreant, on thine allegiance hear me!
- Shak.
So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found, . . .
Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified,
His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal.
- Milton.
Related Words
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