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Disloyalty definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISLOYALTY, n.
1. Want of fidelity to a sovereign; violation of allegiance, or duty to a prince or sovereign authority.
2. Want of fidelity in love.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the quality of being disloyal [ant: loyalty, trueness]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century lack of loyalty

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Disloyalty Dis*loy"al*ty, n. [Pref. dis- + loyalty: cf. OF. desloiaut['e], deslealt['e], F. d['e]loyaut['e].] Want of loyalty; lack of fidelity; violation of allegiance.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Disloyalty is disloyal behaviour. Charges had already been made against certain officials suspected of disloyalty. N-UNCOUNT: oft N to n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Unfaithfulness, undutifulness, faithlessness, treachery, perfidy, want of loyalty, lack of fidelity, dereliction of allegiance.

Moby Thesaurus

Punic faith, apostasy, backsliding, bad faith, barratry, betrayal, bolt, breach of faith, breach of promise, breach of trust, breakaway, defection, dereliction, desertion, disaffection, faithlessness, falseness, falsity, fickleness, going over, inconstancy, infidelity, mala fides, perfidiousness, perfidy, ratting, recidivation, recidivism, recreancy, secession, treacherousness, treason, trothlessness, turning traitor, unfaith, unfaithfulness, unloyalty, unsteadfastness, untrueness