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disloyal, a. (n.)|dɪsˈlɔɪəl|
[a. OF. desloial, f. des-, dis- 4 + loial loyal. Cf. also disleal.]
Not loyal; false to one's allegiance or obligations; unfaithful, faithless, perfidious, treacherous. a. Unfaithful to the obligations of friendship or honour, to the marriage tie, etc. (Common in early use: now somewhat rare.)
c1477Caxton Jason 53 Certes fayr sire Jason ansuerede the disloyal and untrue Peleus [etc.]. 1581G. Pettie tr. Guazzo's Civ. Conv. i. (1586) 26 b, The Greekes though singuler in learning and eloquence, yet are they disloiall and faithlesse. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. vii. 22 Disloyall Treason, and hart-burning Hate. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, v. ii. 105 Thou do'st suspect That I haue bene disloyall to thy bed. 1639S. Du Verger tr. Camus' Admir. Events 51 The demeanure of his disloyall wife. 1844Mrs. Browning Flower in Let. iv, Without a thought disloyal.
b. Untrue to one's allegiance; wanting in loyalty to the government or to constituted authority.
1585Abp. Sandys Serm. (1841) 200 Absolon rebelled..but God quickly paid him that which was due to his rebellious and disloyal attempts. 1634Prynne Documents agst. Prynne (Camden) 48 Executed by your Lordship as seditious and disloyall. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 204 Man disobeying, Disloyal breaks his feältie, and sinns Against the high Supremacie of Heav'n. 1673[R. Leigh] Transp. Reh. 146 His malicious and disloyal reflections on the late Kings Reign. 1711Hearne Collect. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) III. 222 Disloyal Whiggs dispatch and goe, And visit Noll and Will below! 1837J. H. Newman Par. Serm. (1839) I. xv. 225 Disloyal to the authority of God.
†B. n. A disloyal person; a traitor, rebel. Obs.
1611Speed Hist. Gr. Brit. ix. xxii. (1632) 1112 The battell of the disloyals. 1651tr. De las Coveras' Hist. Don Fenise 302, I desired to see this disloyall yet once. Ibid. 303.
Hence disˈloyalist, a person disloyal or disaffected to the government.
1863in Boston Sunday Her. 24 May 1/3. 1870 Congress. Globe 7 July 5310/3 The county of Monroe [in Missouri] was the place where disloyalists fleeing from other counties took shelter all the time. 1885Pall Mall G. 10 June 10/1 Two organized bands of disloyalists indulged in hostile manifestations. 1886J. Cook in Advance (Boston) 18 Feb. 99 As dangerous in his character of a disloyalist as that of a polygamist. |