All 42 Uses
allegiance
in
Allegiant
(Edited)
- They call themselves the Allegiant.
p. 20.2 *allegiant = loyal (in this novel, people who remain loyal to the faction system)editor's notes: Outside of this novel, the word is usually seen in the form allegiance (meaning loyalty), as in, "I pledge allegiance to the flag of..."
- The Allegiant claim that we're meant to be in factions because we've been in them since the beginning.
p. 20.5allegiant = loyal (in this novel, people who remain loyal to the faction system)
- Whoever the Allegiant are, they need to be warned, and quickly.
p. 21.9
- "We are the Allegiant," the voice replies.
p. 49.8
- They sit on the bed across from mine, and I tell them about getting cornered in one of the Erudite laboratories the night before, about the pillowcase and the Allegiant and the meeting.
p. 53.5
- Cara and Johanna are the leaders of the Allegiant?
p. 60.9
- Johanna still has an Allegiant rebellion to organize.
p. 102.4
- So why form the Allegiant?
p. 133.6
- I didn't realize how much Cara had already cleaved to the idea of being an Allegiant, loyal to the faction system, loyal to our founders.
p. 133.7
- "Allegiant," or if we can just be friends or lovers or siblings, defined instead by the choices we make and the love and loyalty that binds us.
p. 134.3
- But the Bureau made me feel like a fool for fighting for any of it, and for what the Allegiant stood for.
p. 308.3
- Any of the Allegiant stuff.
p. 308.4
- "I thought you contacted me because you know I'm still the leader of the Allegiant, and you want an ally," Johanna says, bending her neck so a lock of hair falls over her scarred eye.
p. 311.9
- "Let me join you in leading the Allegiant," he says.
p. 314.9
- "Not to diminish your accomplishments, but the Allegiant are still too insignificant to be any more than a small uprising," Marcus says.
p. 315.2
- I can see Johanna beginning to believe him, thinking of the small cluster of people she has gathered to the Allegiant cause.
p. 315.7
- It's the beginning of the Allegiant rebellion I've been expecting since I first heard the group had formed.
p. 316.4
- "Or he's joined the Allegiant, and they're harboring him," Therese says, slinging her body across one of the office chairs.
p. 317.5
- On another screen, I scroll through the footage again, looking for Marcus or Johanna, anything that can show me what's happening with the Allegiant.
p. 360.3
- The Allegiant are actually attacking.
p. 361.8
- "The Allegiant have formed an army," I say, pointing at the screen on the left.
p. 362.8
- "The Allegiant are the enemies of the new enemies, the factionless," Cara replies.
p. 363.1
- Which gives the Erudite and the Allegiant a common goal: to usurp Evelyn.
p. 363.1
- "The Allegiant raided their first weapons storehouse a few days ago," the young woman sitting at the control room desk nearest to us says over her shoulder.
p. 363.3
- "The Allegiant are motivated by the desire to return to our original purpose in the city," Cara says.
p. 363.7
- I almost forgot that Cara was the leader of the Allegiant, before we left.
p. 364.1
- Several men and women with factionless armbands guard the table, but they are falling fast, outnumbered by the Allegiant.
p. 364.7
- The Allegiant spread through the room, stepping over bodies like they are just more debris, and gather everything they can.
p. 364.9
- Surprisingly, though, the Allegiant still don't outnumber the faction-less.
p. 365.5
- Now, with the factions disbanded, it seems she has become something other than the mouthpiece of Amity or even the leader of the Allegiant.
p. 366.1
- The Allegiant rose up against Evelyn, attacked one of her weapons storehouses.
p. 369.4
- The Allegiant?
p. 369.6
- Faction loyalists calling themselves the Allegiant have rebelled against faction-less control, attacking weapons safe houses.
p. 375.6
- If the Allegiant attack the factionless government, and Evelyn Johnson retaliates, the casualties will obviously be catastrophic.
p. 375.8
- If we stop the reset, the Allegiant will attack Evelyn, Evelyn will turn the death serum loose, and a lot of people will die.
p. 402.9
- If Evelyn and the Allegiant smack into each other, she could get hurt, and I won't be there to protect her.
p. 403.5
- With all that Allegiant stuff going on.
p. 434.1
- To my left are the Allegiant, Marcus, and the insurrection plan.
p. 441.7
- You can lead the factionless, you can fight the Allegiant, but you'll have to do it without me, forever.
p. 465.6
- I am the leader of the Allegiant!
p. 483.6
- I am the leader of the Allegiant.
p. 483.6
- "We found them with the Allegiant, in the Hancock building," she says.
p. 488.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(allegiance) loyalty to a person, group, or cause
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)