Definition of Loyalties

1. Noun. (plural of loyalty) ¹

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Definition of Loyalties

1. loyalty [n] - See also: loyalty

Lexicographical Neighbors of Loyalties

loyalest
loyalism
loyalisms
loyalist
loyalists
loyalization
loyalize
loyalized
loyalizes
loyalizing
loyall
loyaller
loyallest
loyally
loyalness
loyalties (current term)
loyalty
loys
lozell
lozells
lozen
lozenge
lozenged
lozengelike
lozenges
lozengy
lozens
luanheite
luau
luaus

Literary usage of Loyalties

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Religious Education in the Church by Henry Frederick Cope (1918)
"The child grows up discovering groups and rejoicing in group loyalties. Long before he has any concept of what the family "ism" means he boasts of being a ..."

2. The Dramatist, a Journal of Dramatic Technology by Luther Anthony, B., Luther B. Anthony (1919)
"loyalties.* An Abstract Thesis. Galsworthy seldom pays any attention to the laws of ... Some critics profess to find a distant rumble of war in "loyalties. ..."

3. Essentials of Social Psychology by Emory Stephen Bogardus (1920)
"GROUP loyalties It is assumed here that man is inherently social, that he is in a sense a product of group life, and that beneath anti-social actions there ..."

4. The Settlement horizon: A National Estimateby Kennedy, Albert Joseph, Robert Archey Woods by Kennedy, Albert Joseph, Robert Archey Woods (1922)
"INTERPLAY OF RELIGIOUS loyalties Settlements founded and maintained by sectarian organizations generally select residents among fellow communicants. ..."

5. Military Ethics: Reflections on Principles-The Profession of Arms, Military edited by Malham M. Wakin (1994)
"loyalties ARE THE DIFFERENCE JN THE CONTEMPORARY literature of professional ethics, two different ways of determining whether an occupation is a profession ..."

6. On Becoming an American: Some Meditations of a Newly Naturalized Immigrant by Horace James Bridges (1919)
"... CHAPTER V THE RENUNCIATION OF FOREIGN loyalties IT is important that one should realize clearly and fully what is involved in the demand which America ..."

7. Vesper Talks to Girls by Laura Anna Knott (1916)
"IX CONFLICTING loyalties SOME of the saddest yet most common tragedies enacted in life about us have their source in the conflict between duty to self and ..."

8. The Philosophy of Loyalty by Josiah Royce (1908)
"THE PHILOSOPHY OF LOYALTY life wherein we have to try to unify various special loyalties, and since, in many cases, these special loyalties seem to us to ..."

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