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loy⋅al⋅ty
[loi-uh
l-tee] 
–noun, plural -ties.
| 1. | the state or quality of being loyal; faithfulness to commitments or obligations. |
| 2. | faithful adherence to a sovereign, government, leader, cause, etc. |
| 3. | an example or instance of faithfulness, adherence, or the like: a man with fierce loyalties. |
Synonyms:
2. fealty, devotion, constancy. Loyalty, allegiance, fidelity all imply a sense of duty or of devoted attachment to something or someone. Loyalty connotes sentiment and the feeling of devotion that one holds for one's country, creed, family, friends, etc. Allegiance applies particularly to a citizen's duty to his or her country, or, by extension, one's obligation to support a party, cause, leader, etc. Fidelity implies unwavering devotion and allegiance to a person, principle, etc.
2. fealty, devotion, constancy. Loyalty, allegiance, fidelity all imply a sense of duty or of devoted attachment to something or someone. Loyalty connotes sentiment and the feeling of devotion that one holds for one's country, creed, family, friends, etc. Allegiance applies particularly to a citizen's duty to his or her country, or, by extension, one's obligation to support a party, cause, leader, etc. Fidelity implies unwavering devotion and allegiance to a person, principle, etc.
Antonyms:
1, 2. faithlessness.
1, 2. faithlessness.
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Loyalty
Loy"al*ty\, n. [Cf. F. loyaut['e]. See Loyal, and cf. Legality.] The state or quality of being loyal; fidelity to a superior, or to duty, love, etc. He had such loyalty to the king as the law required. --Clarendon. Not withstanding all the subtle bait With which those Amazons his love still craved, To his one love his loyalty he saved. --Spenser. Note: "Loyalty . . . expresses, properly, that fidelity which one owes according to law, and does not necessarily include that attachment to the royal person, which, happily, we in England have been able further to throw into the word." --Trench. Syn: Allegiance; fealty. See Allegiance.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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loyalty
c.1400, from O.Fr. loyalté (Fr. loyauté), from O.Fr. loial, from L. legalis "legal," from lex (gen. legis "law"). Replaced Anglo-Norm. leal (q.v.), from the same L. source. Sense development in Eng. is feudal, via notion of "faithful in carrying out legal obligations." Loyalty oath first attested 1952.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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