Definitions for loyalty
ˈlɔɪ əl tiloy·al·ty

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. loyalty, trueness(noun)

   the quality of being loyal

2. loyalty(noun)

   feelings of allegiance

3. commitment, allegiance, loyalty, dedication(noun)

   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"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. loyalty(Noun)

   Unswerving in allegiance.

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

2. loyalty(Noun)

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

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

3. loyalty(Noun)

   Faithful to a private person to whom fidelity is due.

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

4. loyalty(Noun)

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

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

5. loyalty(Noun)

   The state of being loyal; fidelity.

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

Webster Dictionary(1.33 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Loyalty(noun)

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

Freebase(3.25 / 4 votes)Rate this definition:

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.

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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  

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

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

How to pronounce loyalty?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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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. Donald Trump:

   If Senate Democrats decide that party loyalty matters more than national security and if Republican leadership decides that showboating is more important than stopping this deal, then the single most important issue in 2016 will be stopping Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

2. Michael Cohen.RELATED:

   I made these statements to be consistent with Individual-1's political messaging and out of loyalty to Individual-1.

3. Anuj Somany:

   The foolproof test to know as how much a supporter has loyalty towards a political party is to stop funding him with currency through which he enjoys often pub & club party.

4. Robert Benchley:

   A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

5. Kellyanne Conway:

   This is about the country, people doing the right thing by the country and not by their party. And this is about telling the truth about what really happened and not about party loyalty, this is about putting the country, the law, truth above partisanship.

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