It is likely that Baghdadi has officially gained the allegiance of a number of fighters.
Indeed, the group highlighted the oaths of allegiance in today's beheading video.
Their “consistently liberal” corollaries split their allegiance among CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and The New York Times.
We all agreed that we should film the making of allegiance as one of the present-day threads.
Like an oath of allegiance to country or Constitution, one assumes.
You have seen duty and allegiance in the determined faces of our soldiers.
That every man may enjoy it without injury to his allegiance.
He submitted to the French power, took the oath of allegiance, and became a French citizen.
Even the political parties are losing the allegiance of the press.
Even Will be Will seemed to be wavering in his allegiance to Diabolus.
late 14c., from Anglo-French legaunce "loyalty of a liege-man to his lord," from Old French legeance, from liege (see liege); erroneously associated with Latin ligare "to bind;" corrupted in spelling by confusion with the now-obsolete legal term allegeance "alleviation." General figurative sense of "recognition of claims to respect or duty" is attested from 1732.
