nonallegiant

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1. Not allegiant; Without loyalty.

   Today, I would ask you to tak a different oath. An oath nonallegiant to a man, but rather to a set of principles, an ideal.

   2012, Christopher Lewis, The Soldier’S Oath: A Sedition Rising, page 195

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   Thus far, the discussion has treated the relationship between preferences and governmental outcomes rather loosely. For example, a relationship between these factors is implicit in the expectation that the participation of nonallegiant apathetics may result in threats to democracy.

   1969, Charles F. Cnudde, Deane E. Neubauer, Empirical Democratic Theory, page 523

   Proliferating nonallegiant or only semiallegiant immigrant communities challenge the norms and practices of liberal democracies by eschewing restrained partisanship, provoking the rise of virulent anti-immigrant parties and movements, and inducing illiberal crackdowns on suspect groups.

   2006, John Higley, Michael G. Burton, Elite Foundations of Liberal Democracy, page 194