- The state or quality of being loyal. See synonyms at fidelity.
- A feeling or attitude of devoted attachment and affection. Often used in the plural: My loyalties lie with my family.
loyalty
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noun
- Faithfulness or devotion to a person, a cause, obligations, or duties: allegiance, constancy, faithfulness, fealty, fidelity, steadfastness. See continue/stop/pause, obligation.
- The condition of being closely tied to another by affection or faith. affection, attachment, devotion, fondness, liking, love. See connect.
| Antonyms: loyalty |
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Definition: faithfulness, dependability
Antonyms: disloyalty, treachery, undependability, unfaithfulness
| US Military Dictionary: loyalty |
n. pl. -ies 1. the quality of being loyal to someone or something: her loyalty to her husband of thirty-four years.
2. (often loyalties) a strong feeling of support or allegiance: fights with in-laws are distressing because they cause divided loyalties.
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| Philosophy Dictionary: loyalty |
Of ethical interest because although loyalty to a friend, family, or other group can be a virtue, it is one that conflicts with the impartiality necessary to justice or to generalized universal altruism. See also gratitude, friendship.
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IN BRIEF: Faithfulness.
Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
— Mark Twain
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Quotes:
"My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right."
- Carl Schurz
"It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans."
- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
"Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy."
- Seneca
"Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living."
- Josiah Royce
"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."
- Oscar Wilde
"It is better to be faithful than famous."
- Theodore Roosevelt
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- This page is about loyalty as faithfulness to a cause. Loyalty also means devotion,dependent. and honest to one person or thing. For its use in business, see loyalty business model or loyalty marketing. For the Angel episode, see Loyalty (Angel).
Loyalty is faithfulness or a devotion to a person or cause.
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Loyalty and Marketing
The practice of providing discounts, prizes, or other incentives to encourage continued patronage of a business. Generally, loyalty programs are considered less expensive to maintain than allowing customer defection or 'churn'.
Loyalty and ethics
The concept of loyalty is an important part of ethics. Plato originally said that only a man who is just can be loyal, and that loyalty is a condition of genuine philosophy. The philosopher Josiah Royce said it was the supreme moral good, and that one's devotion to an object mattered more than the merits of the object itself. Loyalty is a quality you look for in a friend.
Loyalty in the Bible
Jesus said, “No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.” (Matthew 6:24 NIV) Attempting to serve two masters leads to “double-mindedness” (James 4:8), undermining loyalty to a cause. James 5:2. The bible also speaks of loyal ones, which would be those who follow the bible with absoloute loyalty, as in "Precious in the eyes of Jehovah, is the death of his loyal ones", (Psalms 116:15)
Loyalty within Hierarchy
Within hierarchies loyalty usually has to be given to authority.
Loyalty in Literature
- Der Untertan (Heinrich Mann 1918)
- I liked the idea of representing nobody but myself. No affiliation, no ties, no loyalties. (Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson)
Loyalty in Social Communities
- Commitment and Social Organization: A Study of Commitment Mechanisms in Utopian Communities, by Rosabeth Moss Kanter © 1968 American Sociological Association.
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