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.
The tie or obligation, implied or expressed, which a subject owes to his sovereign or government; the duty of fidelity to one's king, government, or state.
Devotion; loyalty; as, allegiance to science.
Loyalty to a nation, organization, or cause.
the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action; "his long commitment to public service"; "they felt no loyalty to a losing team"
the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign)
Allegiance is the duty which a subject or a citizen owes to the state or to the sovereign of the state to which he belongs.