Meaning of LOYALTY
| Pronunciation: | | 'loyultee
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- [n] the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action; "his long commitment to public service"; "they felt no loyalty to a losing team"
- [n] the quality of being loyal
- [n] feelings of allegiance
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| | Synonyms: | | allegiance, commitment, dedication |
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| | Antonyms: | | disloyalty | | |
| | See Also: | | allegiance, communalism, consecration, cooperation, devotion, faith, faithfulness, fealty, fidelity, love, nationalism, patriotism, staunchness, steadfastness | |
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| | Definition: | |  Loyalty
Explains the virtue of loyalty and describes ways to show it in the home, school, and community. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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}.
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