noun (n)

• the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign)(noun.attribute)

  Synonym:
  allegiance
  

  source: wordnet30
• Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior power, or to a government; loyality. It is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation.(noun)

  source: webster1913