n. 忠贞,效忠
拆分: al-加强意义 + -lig-约束←i和e元音互换→leg约束 + -i-中缀 + -ance名词词尾 ⇒ 忠贞的品质基于对自我的约束
例:What makes us exceptional, what makes us American, is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago. 使我们与众不同,使我们成为美国人的,是我们对一个在两个多世纪以前发表的宣言中所表述的理念的恪守。
