loyalismn.
/ˈlɔɪəlɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈlɔɪ(ə)lˌɪzəm/, /ˈlɔ(ɪ)jəlˌɪzəm/ The principles or actions of a loyalist; adherence to the sovereign or government; loyalty.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > faithfulness or trustworthiness > fidelity or loyalty > [noun] > to sovereign or government
loyalty1531
loyality1646
Church and Kingism1794
loyalism1837
1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1842) lxiii. 556 This feature of Irish loyalism was new to the untravelled Scotch of the party.
1887 Chambers's Jrnl. 4 12 Why, then, should I, a student, foresee, beneath this wealth of loyalism, a rising power that would crush and kill both the lauders and the lauded.
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n.1837- to get with the programme
- to get within
- to get wood
- to get work up a head of steam
- to get wrong
- to get yours
- to get, , lose flesh
- to get, come, etc, unstuck
- to get, get oneself in, lose flesh
- to get, give, have fair law
- to get, give, have fair law of
- to get, give, have law
- to get, give, have law of
- to get, give, have, obtain, take a licence
- to get, give, have, obtain, take licence
- to get, have or give a skrik
- to get, have or give someone a skrik
- to get, have, meet with one's deserts
- to get, have, or take a cold
- to get, have, or take a right sow by the ear
- to get, have, or take a wrong sow by the ear
- to get, have, or take the right sow by the ear
- to get, have, or take the wrong sow by the ear
- to get, have, possess the dead-wood
- to get, have, possess the deadwood