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LOYALTY , allegiance to theSee also: sovereign or established See also: government of one's country, also See also: personal devotion and reverence to the sovereign and royal See also: family
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The See also: English word came into use in the early See also: part of the 15th century in the sense of fidelity to one's See also: oath, or in service, love, &c.; the later and now the ordinary sense appears in the 16th century
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Fr. loialte, mod. loyaute, is formed from loial, loyal, Scots leal, See also: Lat. legalis, legal, from lex, See also: law
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This was used in the See also: special feudal sense of one who has full legal rights, a legalis homo being opposed to the exlex, utlegates, or outlaw
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Thence in the sense of faithful, it meant one who kept faithful allegiance to his feudal See also: lord, and so loyal in the accepted use of the word
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