Definition of Allegiance

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ALLEGIANCE noun

	This thing Allegiance, as I suppose, Is a ring fitted in the subject's nose, Whereby that organ is kept rightly pointed To smell the sweetness of the Lord's anointed. G.J.

		definition from: *The Devil's Dictionary* by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

Alliance

Regular definition:

ALLEGIANCE:
??li:d??ns n. 1 loyalty (to a person or cause etc.). 2 the duty of a subject to his or her sovereign or government. [ME f. AF f. OF ligeance (as LIEGE): perh. assoc. with ALLIANCE]

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