Definitions for loyalty
ˈlɔɪ əl tiloy·al·ty

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. loyalty, truenessnoun

   the quality of being loyal

2. loyaltynoun

   feelings of allegiance

3. commitment, allegiance, loyalty, dedicationnoun

   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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. loyaltynoun

   Unswerving in allegiance.

2. loyaltynoun

   Faithful in allegiance to one's lawful sovereign or government.

3. loyaltynoun

   Faithful to a private person to whom fidelity is due.

4. loyaltynoun

   Faithful to a cause, ideal, custom, institution, or product.

5. loyaltynoun

   The state of being loyal; fidelity.

6. Etymology: loiauté (Modern loyauté) from loial + -té

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Loyaltynoun

   Etymology: loiaulte, French.

   1. Firm and faithful adherence to a prince.

   Though loyalty, well held, to fools does make
   Our faith meer folly; yet he that can endure
   To follow with allegiance a fall’n lord,
   Does conquer him that did his master conquer. William Shakespeare.

   To day shalt thou behold a subject die
   For truth, for duty, and for loyalty. William Shakespeare, Rich. III.

   Commissions flaw’d the heart
   Of all their loyalties. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

   He had never had any veneration for the court, but only such loyalty to the king as the law required. Edward Hyde.

   Abdiel faithful found
   Unshaken, unseduc’d, unterrify’d,
   His loyalty he kept. John Milton.

   2. Fidelity to a lady, or lover.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Loyalty

   Loyalty is a devotion and faithfulness to a nation, cause, philosophy, country, group, or person. Philosophers disagree on what can be an object of loyalty, as some argue that loyalty is strictly interpersonal and only another human being can be the object of loyalty. The definition of loyalty in law and political science is the fidelity of an individual to a nation, either one's nation of birth, or one's declared home nation by oath (naturalization).

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1. loyalty

   Loyalty is a strong feeling of support, allegiance, or devotion towards someone or something. It involves a sense of commitment and duty, often following through with actions that uphold the interests of the person, group, or cause one is loyal to, even in challenging circumstances. Loyalty is a key element in personal, professional, and social relationships and it can be towards a partner, friend, employer, country, brand, or ideals and beliefs.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:1.3 / 3 votes

1. Loyaltynoun

   the state or quality of being loyal; fidelity to a superior, or to duty, love, etc

WikidataRate this definition:3.3 / 4 votes

1. Loyalty

   Loyalty is faithfulness or a devotion to a person, country, group, or cause. There are many aspects to loyalty. John Kleinig, professor of Philosophy at City University of New York, observes that over the years the idea has been treated by creative writers from Aeschylus through John Galsworthy to Joseph Conrad, by psychologists, psychiatrists, sociologists, scholars of religion, political economists, scholars of business and marketing, and — most particularly — by political theorists, who deal with it in terms of loyalty oaths and patriotism. As a philosophical concept, loyalty was largely untreated by philosophers until the work of Josiah Royce, the "grand exception" in Kleinig's words. John Ladd, professor of Philosophy at Brown University writing in the Macmillan Encyclopaedia of Philosophy in 1967, observes that by that time the subject had received "scant attention in philosophical literature". This he attributed to "odious" associations that the subject had with nationalism, including the nationalism of Nazism, and with the metaphysics of idealism, which he characterized as "obsolete". He argued that such associations were, however, faulty, and that the notion of loyalty is "an essential ingredient in any civilized and humane system of morals". Kleinig observes that from the 1980s onwards, the subject gained attention, with philosophers variously relating it to professional ethics, whistleblowing, friendship, and virtue theory.

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1. loyalty

   The quality of being loyal.

   Loyalty is vital quality for couples, partnerships and marriage and we do this easily knowing love, unity, understanding and loyalty are for life.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 29, 2020  

Matched Categories

1. • Cooperation
   • Fidelity
   • Love

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'loyalty' in Nouns Frequency: #1833

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How to pronounce loyalty?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say loyalty in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of loyalty in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of loyalty in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of loyalty in a Sentence

1. Abu Mohammad al-Adnani:

   Our caliph, God save him, has accepted the pledge of loyalty of our brothers of Boko Haram so we congratulate Muslims and our jihadi brothers in West Africa.

2. President Gnassingbe:

   It is through duty to our dear country and loyalty to our ideals that I have the honor to accept to be a presidential candidate for our party UNIR. I accept this nomination with great humility.

3. Liz Cheney:

   You can imagine a situation in the current environment where members at the beginning of the alphabet say Donald Trump. You don't have to be a member of the House to be speaker, if people on the Republican side start standing up and saying Donald Trump, you could have an impact where many people say that and where Donald Trump will begin to view that as some sort of a loyalty test. That is the power that he is holding right now over Kevin McCarthy and over a number of members in the leadership of the Republican caucus.

4. Barry Schwartz:

   Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality -- do whatever makes the most money.

5. Jason Kenney:

   At that one very public moment, of a very public declaration of one's loyalty to one's fellow citizens and country, one should do so openly, proudly and publicly, without one's face hidden.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=loyalty
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Loyalty
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=loyalty
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalty
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loyalty
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=loyalty
8. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=loyalty