Word Meanings - DISLOYALTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Want of loyalty; lack of fidelity; violation of allegiance.

LOYALTY
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
ALLEGIANCE
The meaning was influenced by L. ligare to bind, and even by lex, 1. The tie or obligation, implied or expressed, which a subject owes to his sovereign or government; the duty of fidelity to one's king, government, or state. 2. Devotion; loyalty;
FIDELITY
Faithfulness; adherence to right; careful and exact observance of duty, or discharge of obligations. Especially: Adherence to a person or party to which one is bound; loyalty. Whose courageous fidelity was proof to all danger. Macaulay. The best
VIOLATION
The act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being violated. Specifically: -- Infringement; transgression; nonobservance; as, the violation of law or positive command, of covenants, promises, etc. "The violation of my
DISLOYALTY
Want of loyalty; lack of fidelity; violation of allegiance.
INFIDELITY
1. Want of faith or belief in some religious system; especially, a want of faith in, or disbelief of, the inspiration of the Scriptures, of the divine origin of Christianity. There is, indeed, no doubt but that vanity is one of the principal causes