fealtyold use

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Loyal, faithful & dependable
a safe pair of handsidiom
audaciously
be as good as your wordidiom
be here for someoneidiom
be there for someoneidiom
committed
constancy
faithful
faithfully
faithfulness
fealty
fidelity
fiduciary
reliable
reliably
self
stalwart
stalwartly
undependable
unto thine own self be trueidiom

allegiance | American Dictionary

allegiance
noun[ C/U ]
us/əˈli·dʒəns/
support for a leader, country, group, or belief:
[ U ]For many here, allegiance to the local community comes first.

Examples of allegiance

allegiance
Political allegiances at this point, then, remained uncertain.
The expressive theory implies that changing social structure will determine changing patterns of party allegiance.
Ordinary citizens, as voters, would desert centrist parties and transfer their allegiance to the extremes.
Such "curious" cases, symbolic of clinical medicine's incomplete professionalization and lingering allegiance to an older, more openly-subjective medical culture, are in fact not uncommon.
Each of us, all products of this system, bears allegiance to one or the other of the two great tribes.
This source provided the session of parliaments, change in prime minister, by-election results, change of allegiance, election results and public opinion data.
Nor can they be construed as applying only to individuals and requiring individual allegiance and diligence.
He demands and directs change, compelling his companions to act, railing against hopelessness and disenchantment, against any allegiance to utopia.
This bond, of course, translates as political and military allegiances in genres which are about heroic exploits and other 'manly' activities.
I gauge the uniformity of acquiescence based on evidence from state legislative journals about oaths of allegiance taken by state and national officials.
By incorporating national covenantal ideology into state oaths, exponents broadened the boundaries of political participation and sacralized the grounds for national allegiance.
Pre-crisis ideological allegiances and the historical performance records of the rival policy orientations determine baseline preferences.
Or is it more a matter of how academics construct their professional identities, how they define their tribal allegiances?
It is tempting to search for a single determinant of allegiance, to attribute royalism to religious sentiment or to a touching if rather canine loyalty.
Allegiance to fashion snobbery was quickly dissolved with ravers championing the rise of the blatantly pirated clothing that mutated into children's clothing and bland beachwear.
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