allegiance
noun /əˈliːdʒəns/
/əˈliːdʒəns/
[uncountable, countable]- a person’s continued support for a political party, religion, leader, etc.
- to switch/transfer/change allegiance
- an oath/a vow/a statement of allegiance
- People of various party allegiances joined the campaign.
- allegiance (to somebody/something) to pledge/swear allegiance
- He affirmed his allegiance to the president.
Extra Examples- Every day the children say the Pledge of Allegiance.
- Every day the schoolchildren pledge an oath of allegiance to their country.
- He is now very rich but his allegiance to his working-class origins is still strong.
- He keeps everyone guessing about his true allegiance.
- He owed his allegiance to the organization that had given him all his opportunities.
- It is hard to keep up with the changing allegiances between the various political parties.
- Love of one's country does not mean blind allegiance to a regime.
- Many people have abandoned their traditional party allegiances.
- New officers take an oath of allegiance to their country.
- The rebels now have to swear allegiance to a leader they hate.
- The union needs to retain the allegiance of all its members for the strike to succeed.
- The various splinter groups all claim allegiance to the true spirit of the movement.
- We will give our full allegiance to the party and everything it believes in.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- full
- strong
- traditional
- …
- give
- owe
- declare
- …
- allegiance to
- an oath of allegiance
- a pledge of allegiance
Word Originlate Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, variant of Old French ligeance, from lige, liege (from medieval Latin laeticus, probably of Germanic origin), perhaps by association with Anglo-Latin alligantia ‘alliance’.