allegiant

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allegiant (comparative more allegiant, superlative most allegiant)

  1. Steadfastly loyal, especially to a monarch or government.
    • 1613 (date written), 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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
      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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