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Allegiant vs Align - What's the difference?

allegiant | align |

As an adjective allegiant

is steadfastly loyal, especially to a monarch or government.

As a verb align is

to form in line; to fall into line.

allegiant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Steadfastly loyal, especially to a monarch or government.
  • * 1623 , , Act 3, Scene 2,
  • 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 , , Chapter L,
  • 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.

    Anagrams

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    align

    English

    (wikipedia align)

    Alternative forms

    * aline

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form in line; to fall into line.
  • To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line.
  • (computing) To store (data) in a way that is consistent with the memory architecture, i.e. by beginning each item at an offset equal to some multiple of the word size.
  • To adhere oneself with a group or a way of thinking.
  • Derived terms

    * alignment