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▪ I. allegiance|əˈliːdʒəns, əˈliːdʒ(ɪ)əns|
Forms: 4–5 al- allegeaunce, alie- alligiaunce, 5 alegeawns, 6 allegians, -gance, -giauns, -gyaunce, 6–7 alleagiance, allegeance, 7 aleige-, alleageance, 6– allegiance.
[A derivative of liege, q.v., OFr. lige, liege, late L. ligius: whence OFr. ligance, ligeance, ligence (Cotgr.); med.L. ligiantia, ligeantia, ligentia, ligantia (erroneously associated with ligāre to bind); ME. ligeaunce, ? legeance. Of the latter, allegiance, 14th c. alegeaunce, was orig. merely a variation, the a- being prefixed perh. through confusing the word with another legal term, allegeance2, with which it was, at first, formally identical. The word was of Eng. formation, med.L. allegiantia being formed on it, and mod.Fr. allégeance according to Littré and Diez adopted from Eng.]
†1. The relation of a liege lord; lordship. Obs.
c1400Destr. Troy vi. 2326 Yff it like your Aliegiaunce, þat I, your lefe son, Be sent..it shall vs wele like. Ibid. xxi. 8909 And his alligiaunce lelly I will loute to. c1425Wyntoun Cron. vii. viii. 14 Hys Lord be detful alegeawns.
2. The relation or duties of a liege-man to his liege-lord; the tie or obligation of a subject to his sovereign, or government.
1399Langl. Rich. Redeless i. 9 Of alegeaunce now lerneth a lesson oþer tweyne Wherby it standith and stablithe moste. 1494Fabyan vii. 324 He had, contrary his allegeaunce, made homage vnto Lewys. 1588Greene Pandosto (1607) 7 To diswade his subiects from their allegance. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, v. i. 179 Hast thou not sworne Allegeance unto me? 1651Hobbes Leviath. i. xii. 60 Subjects may be freed from their Alleageance. 1768Blackstone Comm. I. i. x. 284 Natural allegiance is therefore perpetual. 1824Dibdin Libr. Comp. 115 To take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy. 1845Stephen Laws of Eng. II. 399 We shall now pass from the duties of the sovereign to those which are owing to him from his people, and which are comprehended in the single word allegiance.
3. fig. The recognition of the claims which anything has to our respect and duty.
1732Pope Ess. Man iii. 235 Love all the faith, and all th' allegiance then. 1808Scott Marm. v. 10 Nor to that lady free alone Did the gay king allegiance own. 1830Sir J. Herschel Stud. Nat. Phil. 27 Their allegiance (so to speak) to natural science. 1851Helps Friends in C. I. 22 There is something to which a man owes a larger allegiance than to any human affection.
▪ II. allegiance
variant of allegeancen.1, n.2. Obs. |