a person who displays constancy, duty, and faithfulness, esp to a ruling body
adjective
2.
having or displaying constancy, duty, and faithfulness, esp to a ruling body
I shouldn't be surprised that our elected officials want to indoctrinate the nextflock of voters to be even more blindly allegiant.
allegiant in American English
(əˈlidʒənt)
adjective
1.
loyal; faithful
noun
2.
a faithful follower; adherent
allegiants of religious cults
Word origin
[1605–15; allegi(ance) + -ant]This word is first recorded in the period 1605–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: classic, ferrule, ideal, independent, series-ant is a suffix forming adjectives and nouns from verbs, occurring originally in Frenchand Latin loanwords (pleasant; constant; servant) and productive in English on this model; -ant has the general sense “characterized by or serving in the capacity of” that namedby the stem (ascendant; pretendant), esp. in the formation of nouns denoting human agents in legal actions or otherformal procedures (tenant; defendant; applicant; contestant). In technical and commercial coinages, -ant is a suffix of nouns denoting impersonal physical agents (propellant; lubricant; deodorant). In general, -ant can be added only to bases of Latin origin, with a very few exceptions, as coolant
Examples of 'allegiant' in a sentence
allegiant
More specifically, we are interested in allegiant behaviors.
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