Crossword clues for loyalty
loyalty
- Allegiance changing sides in The King’s Head?
- Republican shunned by monarchy left instead to committed following
- Quality of a good friend
- What you get from true-blue manager
- What some programs promote
- True quality
- Quality of a good subject
- Oath taker's pledge
- Good quality in a friend
- Customer service concern
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Old French loialté, leauté "loyalty, fidelity; legitimacy; honesty; good quality" (Modern French loyauté), from loial (see loyal). Earlier leaute (mid-13c.), from the older French form. Loyalty oath first attested 1852.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of being loyal; fidelity. 2 Faithfulness or devotion to some person, cause or nation.
WordNet
n. the quality of being loyal [ant: disloyalty]
feelings of allegiance
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]
Wikipedia
Loyalty is devotion and faithfulness to a cause, 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.
John Kleinig, professor of philosophy at City University of New York, observes that over the years the idea has been treated by 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 Encyclopedia 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 Nazism, and with the metaphysics of idealism, which he characterized as "obsolete". However, he argued that such associations were 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.
Loyalty is the fifth studio album by American rapper Fat Joe. The album was released on November 12, 2002, by Terror Squad and Atlantic Records The album debuted at number 31 on the Billboard 200 Chart.
"Loyalty" is episode 15 of season 3 in the television show Angel.
Loyalty is the second album from the Queensbridge hip-hop group, Screwball. It is produced mainly by Ayatollah & Godfather Don.
"Loyalty" (alternate titles: "Puntland" and "Artifice") is the two-part season premiere episode and is the first and second episodes of the ninth season (as well as the 172nd and 173rd episodes) of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
Loyalty is a firm and consistent allegiance to and support of a person, group, or cause.
Loyalty may also refer to:
"Loyalty" is a song by American rapper Birdman. The song features Young Money/ Cash Money artists Lil Wayne and Tyga. It is about loyalty and not forgetting where one has come from.
The song is produced by Kane Beatz, and the single's B-side "Pop That" is a title track on Lil Wayne's mixtape No Ceilings. An official remix was released October 22, 2010 which featured Tyga, Brisco, Mack Maine, Lil Twist, Bow Wow and Cory Gunz.
Loyalty is the seventh film of the British TV film series Hornblower, based on the books by C. S. Forester, particularly Hornblower and the Hotspur. It was released on 5 January 2003, nearly four years after the first four films and 9 months after the next two films.
Loyalty is the fourth independent album by American rapper Soulja Boy. The album was released on February 3, 2015 under Stacks on Deck Entertainment.
Loyalty is a monument to a faithful dog in the Russian city of Tolyatti.
Usage examples of "loyalty".
In fact, the opening was depressingly familiar, full of protestations of loyalty to both King George and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, plus a promise that the authors would willingly fight the French, indeed die for their country, but they could not face another day aboard such a hellish ship.
The people hauled in to testify about why they voted absentee offered a vivid picture of the fierce loyalties, rough politics, and economic pressures that shaped the lives of Arkansas hill people.
Marshall, the initiator of the command crisis, refused to acquiesce in the recall in which his own policy as much as loyalty to Stilwell was involved.
The sight of his head, when it was exposed to the eyes of the people, convinced them of their deliverance, and admonished them to receive with acclamations of loyalty and gratitude the fortunate Constantine, who thus achieved by his valor and ability the most splendid enterprise of his life.
I, who was already overwhelmed with distress, could bear this aggravation of misfortune and disgrace: I, who had always maintained the reputation of loyalty, which was acquired at the hazard of my life, and the expense of my blood.
Having by the proclamation extended amnesty on the simple condition of an oath of loyalty to the Union and the Constitution, and obedience to the Decree of Emancipation, the President had established a definite and easily ascertainable constituency of white men in the South to whom the work of reconstructing civil government in the several States might be intrusted.
What makes a man great and freed of soul, here or anywhither, is loyalty to the laws of right, of truth, of purity, of love, and the lofty will of God.
Courage, loyalty, sacrifice, the knowledge to survive in the most appalling conditions.
Binalshibh rejoined Atta and Jarrah, who said they already had pledged loyalty to Bin Ladin and urged him to do the same.
It was very difficult for him to transplant feelings of loyalty from the Baptist, to this relative Stranger.
She had hated the way Benet had looked, so intently, so fascinated, at Mervion, as they had been introduced at the great state dinner, but she was desperately sure that her loyalty to her beloved should be above such petty jealousies, that he should be warned.
Willa for he had known Bevel too long to harbor doubts about his loyalty.
Sometimes they bore the name of the reigning pharaoh and were worn as a token of loyalty, in other cases the bezel was ornamented with the image of a god favored by the wearer.
The man was French, but spoke good English, and his loyalty was proclaimed by the white cockades that he wore, not only on his brown cloak, but also on his bicorne hat.
It had been given to him by Bokram, as a reward for his loyalty and bravery.