ALLEGIANCE
ADJECTIVES
► OBEDIENCIARY owning allegiance; practising or professing obedience → 1700 obs.
NOUNS
► ADHERENCE allegiance, loyalty; attachment to a person, party, or cause; steadfast support → 1449
► ADHERENCY allegiance, steadfast support; the act or fact of adhering to a person or thing → 1579 arch.
► ADHESION allegiance, loyalty; steadfast commitment to a person or thing; fidelity, devotion → 1500
► FAY allegiance → 1290 obs.
► LYANCE allegiance → 1390 obs.
► VASSALAGE allegiance characteristic of a vassal; subordination, homage → 1594
► VASSALDOM allegiance characteristic of a vassal; subordination, homage → 1876
NOUNS, PERSON
► OBEDIENCIARY a person owning allegiance, a subject; one who obeys; one yielding obedience → 1540 obs.
► RAT a person who changes allegiance out of self-interest → 19C sl.
VERBS
► SWITCH LANES to change allegiance; used by teenage gang members → 2003 UK sl.
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