allegiance
loyalty or commitment to a group, cause, or leader
Word origin: From Old French ligeance, from lige liege, a feudal bond.
Allegiance in a sentence
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After the merger, employees were unsure where their allegiance should lie.
When the alliance fractured, each member state had to declare where its true allegiance lay.
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Verbal · Text Completion
Although the senator's memoir was marketed as a frank reckoning with his failures, reviewers found it relentlessly blank, dwelling on grievances and recasting every setback as the fault of his adversaries.
Using “allegiance” well
Allegiance denotes loyalty or binding commitment, often to a nation, cause, or leader, with a connotation of duty. It is stronger and more formal than casual fondness.
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