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Definition of Allegiances
1. allegiance [n] - See also: allegiance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Allegiances
Literary usage of Allegiances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. America Save the Near East by Abraham Mitrie Rihbany (1918)
"CHAPTER VI FOREIGN allegiances WHEN a people become conscious of the fact that
they are being oppressed by their rulers, they will either rise in revolt, ..."
2. The American Political Science Review (1920)
"If a man cannot choose between two loyalties or allegiances, he is, ... If different
men in a social organization choose different allegiances for such ..."
3. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"Then certainly these two allegiances are not the same, ... and if the allegiances
may be considere«! separately, so may the subject (who owes those ..."
4. Amendments of the Constitution, Submitted to the Consideration of the by Francis Lieber (1865)
"He had all along believed in a double allegiance, but when the testing hour
arrived, calling for decision, and showing the impossibility of two allegiances, ..."
5. A Collection of the Most Remarkable and Interesting Trials: Particularly of by SnaggR (1776)
"... one owing to the King as King of Scotland, the other owing to the King as King
of England -, and if the allegiances may be ..."
6. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"The loyalties and allegiances to-day are at best provisional loyalties and
allegiances. Our true State, this state that ..."
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