allegiance

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Loyalty or commitment to a cause, group, nation or of a subordinate to a superior. countable,uncountable
    — 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 destiny;...

词形变化

allegiances plural allegiaunce alternative,obsolete

词源

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.
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