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allegiances

allegiances is the plural of allegiance.

Meaning of allegiance

Noun

allegiance (countable and uncountable, plural allegiances)

  1. Loyalty or commitment to a cause, group, nation or of a subordinate to a superior.
    • With what a feeling of joyful security did her heart go back to its old allegiance! Till now she had scarcely been aware of its strength, for she had known it but by its disappointment—now she fully admitted that early and passionate emotion with which Robert Evelyn had inspired her was indeed her...1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 83
    Antonyms:
    treason, disloyalty

Questions about allegiances

What is allegiances the plural of?
Allegiances is the plural of allegiance.

Words near allegiances in the dictionary

  1. Allegheny mound ant
  2. Allegheny mound ants
  3. Allegheny plum
  4. allegia
  5. allegiance
  6. allegiances
  7. allegiancies
  8. allegiancy
  9. allegiant
  10. allegiantly
  11. allegiants

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