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loyalty

noun
/ˈlɔɪəlti/

Etymology

From Middle English loialte, borrowed from Old French loialte, loiauté (Modern loyauté) from loial + -té, equivalent to loyal + -ty.

  1. derived from loialte
  2. inherited from loialte

Definitions

  1. The state of being loyal

    The state of being loyal; fidelity.

    • brand loyalty

  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.

The neighborhood

Derived

brand loyalty, loyalty card, loyalty penalty, loyalty price, loyalty pricing, loyalty tax, semiloyalty, unloyalty

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at loyalty. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at loyalty. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at loyalty

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA