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Obedient vs Allegiant - What's the difference?

obedient | allegiant |

As adjectives the difference between obedient and allegiant

is that obedient is willing]] to [[comply#verb|comply with the (l), orders, or (l) of those in authority while allegiant is steadfastly loyal, especially to a monarch or government.

obedient

English

Alternative forms

* (qualifier)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Willing]] to [[comply#Verb, comply with the (l), orders, or (l) of those in authority.
    • Jessica was so intensely obedient of her parents that her brother sometimes thought she was a robot.

    Synonyms

    * (l) * (l)

    Antonyms

    * disobedient * dominant

    Related terms

    * obedience * obey

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    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.

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