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allegiance

noun
/əˈliː.d͡ʒəns/

Etymology

From Middle English alegiaunce, from Anglo-Norman alegaunce (“loyalty of a liege-servant to one's lord”), variant of Old French ligeance, from lige (“vassal, liegeman”). More at liege.

  1. derived from ligeance
  2. derived from alegaunce — “loyalty of a liege-servant to one's lord”
  3. inherited from alegiaunce

Definitions

  1. A loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler.

    • It was always going to be a hot occasion for Declan Rice and Jack Grealish, the one-time Ireland internationals who subsequently switched their allegiances.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at allegiance. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at allegiance. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at allegiance

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA