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单词 oath of allegiance
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oath of allegiance
oath of allegiance n. a solemn promise of loyalty, support, and obedience, originally made to a temporal or spiritual leader (esp. the reigning monarch or pope), but now also to a government, state, or some other body of authority, or a symbol representing it.
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the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [noun] > vow or oath > of particular type
abjuration?a1439
professing1560
vow of silence1567
oath of allegiance1574
vow1600
affidation1612
abjuration1621
fetish1705
affidature1727
pledge of allegiance1750
abjuration of the realm1768
oath-parole1900
Guide's honour1912
1574 J. Studley tr. J. Bale Pageant of Popes f. 135 The Emperour vowed to the Pope not an oath of alleageance and fealtye, but of defendinge the Christian fayth.
1612 W. Strachey Lawes 39 All Gouernors of Town or Towns, Fort or Forts, shall be ready..to take their Oaths of Allegiance vnto his Maiestie.
a1698 W. Row Suppl. in R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) xii. 372 A general and ambiguous clause was foisted into the Oath of Allegiance.
1777 P. Van Cortlandt Let. 16 Apr. in J. Judd Corr. Van Cortlandt Family (1977) 188 They are..very doubtful about the propriety of administring a general Oath of Allegiance..when the want of a regular Government gives People a plausable pretence to refuse it.
1829 W. Irving Chron. Conq. Granada II. vi. 41 The inhabitants of nearly forty towns..sent deputations to the Castilian sovereigns, taking the oath of allegiance.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xv. 570 The oath of allegiance, the Whigs said, was drawn in terms far too lax.
1898 Argosy Aug. 82 A De Courtney does not lightly take on him the oath of allegiance, and those who assail the honor of his king assail his own.
1951 K. A. Porter Let. 4 Mar. (1990) vii. 394 This requirement of an oath of allegiance was more of a device for..humiliating honest persons than an effective trap for traitors.
2002 R. Williams Sing yer Heart out for Lads ii. 90 Mark. I served in Northern Ireland. I swored an oath of allegiance to the flag. Alan. Oh please.
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