המשמעות המילונית של המילה "נאמנות" היא נאמנות או נאמנות לאדם, לקבוצה או למטרה. זה מרמז על תחושת חובה או מחויבות לתמוך, לקיים ולהגן על משהו או מישהו. נאמנות משמשת לעתים קרובות בהקשר של אזרחות או לאום, כאשר היא מתייחסת לנאמנות ולציות שאזרחים חייבים למדינתם או לממשלתם.
1. All three Houses have made an excellent show of swearing their allegiance to the royal family, such as it is.
2. He was lost to her, had been lost to her the moment he had chosen to place his allegiance with the House rather than with those the House had wronged.
3. Grissom, our leader, is always asking folks to prove their allegiance.
4. It would cause strife among them and hopefully fracture some of their allegiance toward Dominic.
5. The very connectivity that requires our worship is pushing us into a blind allegiance to the technological supernatural.
6. Neither of us has any claim to fame or to a throne or to the unwilling allegiance of a whole host of woodfolk.
7. Lothario gazed upon her when he might have been speaking to her, and thought how worthy of being loved she was and thus reflection began little by little to assail his allegiance to Anselmo, and a thousand times he thought of withdrawing from the city and going where Anselmo should never see him nor he see Camilla.
8. But , in truth, like all the cities who professed their allegiance to the Barakian kings, Karlsburg truly was a free city.
9. Roland has made an allegiance with the dragon child, threatening both dragon and man.
10. As I pledge my allegiance to root beer and attempt to sort through the many volumes I must research, my thoughts are on meeting your parents at dinner this evening.