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”
loyalty, trueness
(noun) the quality of being loyal
loyalty
(noun) feelings of allegiance
Source: WordNet® 3.1
loyalty (countable and uncountable, plural loyalties)
The state of being loyal; fidelity.
Faithfulness or devotion to some person, cause or nation.
• trueness
• disloyalty
Source: Wiktionary
Loy"al*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. loyaute. See Loyal, and cf. Legality.]
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 May 2024
(verb) leave or give by will after one’s death; “My aunt bequeathed me all her jewelry”; “My grandfather left me his entire estate”
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