allegiant

English

Adjective

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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     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.

Derived terms

• allegiantly

 

Anagrams

• all-eating, antilegal