loyalty
//ˈlɔɪəlti//
Forms
- Plural
- loyalties
Definitions
1.The state of being loyal; fidelity.
2.Faithfulness or devotion to some person, cause or nation.
- He showed loyalty to his local football club after successive relegations.
- Over the violence and the proud loyalties, over the sold-out-ness and the cruel indifference, there is light reclothing us in a kind of strange innocence.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4356
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Word family
Etymology
From Middle English loialte, borrowed from Old French loialte, loiauté (Modern loyauté) from loial + -té, equivalent to loyal + -ty.