allegiant
English
Adjective
allegiant (comparative more allegiant, superlative most allegiant)
- Steadfastly loyal, especially to a monarch or government.
- 1613, William Shakespeare; [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:
- For your great graces / Heap'd upon me, poor undeserver, I / Can nothing render but allegiant thanks, / My prayers to heaven for you, my loyalty, / Which ever has and ever shall be growing, / Till death, that winter, kill it.
- 1914, Jack London, chapter L, in The Mutiny of the Elsinore:
- In another group, still allegiant to the gangsters, were men such as Shorty, Sorensen, Lars Jacobsen, and Larry.
- 1979, Paul Bew, Peter Gibbon, Henry Patterson, The State in Northern Ireland, 1921-72: Political Forces and Social Classes, page 84,
- The fully allegiant group accepted the ultimate sovereignty of the British government.
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Anagrams
- all-eating, antilegal