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Noun Concept
Categories: Nationalism, Feudalism, Oaths of allegiance, Articles with short description, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference
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allegiance  fealty  Alegiance  Allegaince  allegiances
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The loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign) WordNet 3.0
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The loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
An allegiance is a duty of fidelity said to be owed, or freely committed, by the people, subjects or citizens to their state or sovereign. Wikipedia
An oath of fealty, from the Latin fidelitas, is a pledge of allegiance of one person to another. Wikipedia
Duty which a subject or citizen is widely expected to owe to the state to which he or she belongs. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Duty of fidelity, typically to a country Wikidata
Loyalty or devotion to some person, group, cause, or the like. OmegaWiki
Loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler. Wiktionary
Fidelity to one's lord or master; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord. Wiktionary
Fidelity to one's lord. Wiktionary (translation)
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