Loyalty

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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           He had such loyalty to the king as the law required.
                                                    --Clarendon.
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           Not withstanding all the subtle bait
           With which those Amazons his love still craved,
           To his one love his loyalty he saved.    --Spenser.
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     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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  loyalty
       n 1: the quality of being loyal [ant: {disloyalty}]
       2: feelings of allegiance
       3: 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" [syn: {commitment},
           {allegiance}, {dedication}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  146 Moby Thesaurus words for "loyalty":
     abandon, acquiescence, adherence, adhesion, allegiance,
     application, ardency, ardor, assiduity, assiduousness,
     assigned task, attachment, bona fides, bond, bonne foi,
     bounden duty, bulldog tenacity, burden, business, call of duty,
     charge, commitment, committedness, compliance, concentration,
     conformity, constancy, dedication, deference, dependability,
     devoir, devotedness, devotion, devoutness, diligence,
     dogged perseverance, doggedness, duteousness,
     duties and responsibilities, dutifulness, duty, earnestness,
     endurance, engrossment, ethics, faith, faithfulness, fealty,
     fervency, fervidness, fervor, fidelity, fire, firmness,
     firmness of mind, fixedness, flintiness, good faith, heartiness,
     heat, heatedness, homage, impassionedness, imperative,
     indefatigability, industriousness, industry, inflexibility,
     insistence, insistency, intensity, intentness, line of duty,
     mission, must, obedience, obediency, obligation, observance,
     obstinacy, onus, ought, passion, passionateness, patience,
     patience of Job, patriotism, permanence, perseverance, persistence,
     persistency, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, piety, place, plodding,
     plugging, preoccupation, relentlessness, reliability, resolution,
     resolve, respect, rigidity, sedulity, sedulousness,
     self-imposed duty, seriousness, service, servility, servitium,
     settledness, sincerity, single-mindedness, singleness of purpose,
     slogging, spirit, stability, stamina, staunchness, staying power,
     steadfastness, steadiness, steeliness, stick-to-itiveness,
     stubbornness, submission, submissiveness, suit and service,
     suit service, tenaciousness, tenacity, tie, tirelessness, troth,
     true blue, trueness, trustworthiness, truth, unremittingness,
     unswerving attention, unyieldingness, vehemence, warmth,
     willingness, zeal
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  LOYALTY. That which adheres to the law, that which sustains an existing 
  government. See Penal Laws of China, 3.