loyalties
SayLOY-uhl-teez/ˈlɔɪəltiz/
- 1Plural of loyalty.
Her competing loyalties to family and career made the decision agonizing.
The defector's shifting loyalties made intelligence officers wary of his promises.
Note
When loyalty is counted, it stops meaning faithfulness in general and starts meaning a particular tie to a family, a cause or a nation. The plural names several such ties held at once by one person or group. That is why it so often appears with words of strain: loyalties compete, conflict and shift, because each one can pull a different way.
loyalties is a form of loyalty
loyalty, noun: Faithfulness or devotion to a particular person, cause, or nation. Full entry
- Forms
- loyaltyloyalties plural
- Spelling
- loyalty → loyalties: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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