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Loyalty
Loyalty Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Loyalty?
[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
Synonyms | Synonyms for Loyalty: allegiance |
commitment |
dedication
Related Terms | Find terms related to 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
See Also | allegiance |
communalism |
consecration |
cooperation |
devotion |
faith |
faithfulness |
fealty |
fidelity |
love |
nationalism |
patriotism |
staunchness |
steadfastness
Loyalty In Webster's Dictionary
\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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