loyalty 
loy·alty (-tē)
noun pl. -·ties
quality, state, or instance of being loyal; faithfulness or faithful adherence to a person, government, cause, duty, etc.
Etymology: ME loyaulte < OFr loialte
loyalty
n.
Antonyms
loyalty suggests a steadfast devotion of an unquestioning kind that one may feel for one's family, friends, or country; allegiance refers to the duty of a citizen to the government or a similarly felt obligation to support a cause or leader; fidelity implies strict adherence to an obligation or trust; fealty, now chiefly a literary word, suggests faithfulness that one has sworn to uphold; homage implies respect or honor rendered to a person because of rank or achievement, often accompanied by a sense of allegiance
Converse of object
- swear: The picture, adapted from the Bayeux Tapestry, shows Harold swearing loyalty on holy relics.
- engender: But today, the challenge is how to engender that loyalty.
- divide: The child can feel confused as to the reasons for the divorce and may suffer from stress associated with divided loyalties between the parents.
- reward: We also run regular competitions to reward customer loyalty.
- inspire: The more specific your content offering is to your audience's needs, the more likely it is to inspire loyalty.
- pledge: He brought out his hands and said: 'I pledged loyalty with these two hands to the Messenger of Allah e.
Adjective modifier
- unswerving: We all thank Arthur for his unswerving loyalty over the years.
- undying: Their flower-like faces as they swear undying loyalty, small, deep cracks in their emerald.
- tribal: In other words, the sense of ethnic identity and tribal loyalty of many remains strong.
- divided: But resident workers and board members often face particular issues, such as divided loyalties, communicating with the community and maintaining confidentiality.
- undivided: Separated, each man tied to his country by ties of undivided nationalistic loyalty, none of these would have amounted to much.
- conflicting: MORE » Ganging Up These two novels share the theme of friendships tested to breaking point by the stress of conflicting loyalties.
Modifies a noun
- bonus: Sign up & loyalty bonuses, low stake or high stake games.
- cardholder: Here, the individual record of one loyalty cardholder is subjected to examination, analysis and interpretation.
- card: For existing store card holders, the loyalty card is worth 25 % .
- scheme: A new loyalty scheme will also be aimed at midweek diners.
- reward: Or how about those unexpected perks like their Monthly Loyalty Rewards and Special Surprise bonuses, just for being up and playing?
Noun used with modifier
- customer: There is no mention in the written record of customer loyalty to the vendor.
- brand: Brampton was quick to build brand loyalty in the young professional market sector.
- supermarket: Police could be alerted instantly when a wanted person used a cash machine or supermarket loyalty card.
As a boy I genuinely believed in the man who never ate bacon because its red and white stripesreminded himof Sheffield Unitedöindeed in my blue and white Wednesday heart I applauded and supported his loyalty.
Tout se fait par intrigue et rien par loyaute¤ . Everything is done by intrigue, not by loyalty.
Iwant loyalty.I want himto kissmyass in Macy's window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses. I want his pecker in my pocket.
Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another.War springs from the love and loyalty that should be offered to God being applied to some God substituteöoneofthemostdangerousbeing nationalism.
England's foreign policy should always be inspired by the love of freedom. There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom one lays the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
We have room in this country but for one flag, the Stars and Stripes.We have room for but one loyalty, loyalty to the United States.We have room for but one language, the English language.
Would a special relationship between the United States and the British Commonwealth be inconsistent with our overriding loyalty to the world organization?
He felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappinessöthe sense that that is where we really belong.
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