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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 80 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOYALTY , See also:

allegiance to the See also:sovereign or established See also:government of one's See also:country, also See also:personal devotion and reverence to the sovereign and royal See also:family. The See also:English word came into use in the See also:early See also:part of the 15th See also:century in the sense of fidelity to one's See also:oath, or in service, love, &c.; the later and now the See also:ordinary sense appears in the 16th century. The O. Fr. loialte, mod. loyaute, is formed from loial, loyal, Scots leal, See also:Lat. legalis, legal, from lex, See also:law. 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. 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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