loyalty

Definitions

1. The state of being loyal; fidelity
2. The state of being loyal; fidelity.
   countable, uncountable
3. Faithfulness or devotion to some person, cause or nation
4. Faithfulness or devotion to some person, cause or nation.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“brand loyalty”

“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 only responsibility and power of the Vice President under the Constitution is to faithfully count⟳ the electoral college votes as they have⟳ been cast⟳. The Constitution does not empower the Vice President to alter in any way the votes that have⟳ been cast⟳, either by rejecting certain of them or otherwise. How the Vice President discharges this constitutional obligation is not a question⟳ of his loyalty to the President any more than it would be a test⟳ of a President’s loyalty to his Vice President whether the President assented to the impeachment and prosecution of his Vice President for the commission of high crimes while in office. No President and no Vice President would—or should—consider⟳ either event as a test⟳ of political loyalty of one to the other. And if either did, he would have⟳ to accept⟳ that political loyalty must yield⟳ to constitutional obligation. Neither the President nor the Vice President has any higher loyalty than to the Constitution.”

“One reason⟳ why many Asian countries oppose⟳ dual nationality is a belief that it can create⟳ divided loyalties among citizens, said Jelena Dzankic, co-director of the Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT), an international citizenship research⟳ network. […] Japan drafted its current nationality laws shortly after World War II, when many Japanese Americans were put⟳ in internment camps in the US; other dual citizens renounced their loyalty to the Japanese Emperor for their own⟳ safety, said Atsushi Kondo, a law professor at Japan’s Meijo University.”

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