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disloyalty|dɪsˈlɔɪəltɪ|
Also 5 des-, disloyalte, 6–7 -tie.
[ad. OF. desloyaute, desloyaulte, earlier desloialteit (mod.F. déloyauté), f. desloyal, disloyal: cf. loyal, loyalty.]
The quality of being disloyal; unfaithfulness, falseness.
1481Caxton Godfrey 167 Whan the disloyalte and falsenes of mahomet ran thurgh thoryent. 1483― G. de la Tour E viij b, He slewe his broder Amon that suche desloyalte and untrouth had done to his Suster. 1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV (an. 15) 237 b, Your moste renoumed name, by suche a desloialtie, and untruthe against promise, to be both blotted and stained. 1599Shakes. Much Ado ii. i. 49 There shall appeare such seeming truths of Heroes disloyaltie, that iealousie shall be cal'd assurance. 1712Addison Spect. No. 397 ⁋5 This Princess was then under Prosecution for Disloyalty to the King's Bed. 1874Morley Compromise (1886) 90 The infidelity to truth, the disloyalty to one's own intelligence.
b. Now esp. Violation of allegiance or duty to one's sovereign, state, or government.
1600E. Blount tr. Conestaggio 195 Some..charged him with disloyaltie, saying that he would not fight, having beene corrupted. 1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. lvii. (1739) 106 Although Richard the First forgot this man's disloyalty, yet God remembered it. 1821Southey Vision Judgem. v, Discontent and disloyalty, like the teeth of the dragon, He had sown on the winds. 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India II. 385 Several of the Sipahis..suffered the penalty of their disloyalty.
c. with pl. A disloyal act or proceeding.
1659B. Harris Parival's Iron Age 216 The Earle of Holland, repenting himself of his great disloyalties, began [etc.]. 1697C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) 369 To upbraid the Presbyterians..with their former Disloyalties. |