loyal

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Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people, creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally grateful and fiercely loyal -- loyal to the point of abusing their power to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the case of pressuring the State's top cop (see below).

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  1. adjective Steadfast in allegiance to one's homeland, government, or sovereign.
  2. adjective Faithful to a person, ideal, custom, cause, or duty.
  3. adjective Of, relating to, or marked by loyalty. See Synonyms at faithful.

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  • Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people, creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally grateful and fiercely loyal -- loyal to the point of abusing their power to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the case of pressuring the State's top cop (see below). —  digg.com: Stories / Popular
  • You want to talk about a young man that is loyal, that is passionate, that is honest.
  • At the City and as Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people, creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally grateful and fiercely loyal -- loyal to the point of abusing their power to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the case of pressuring the State's top cop (see below). —  Andrew Tobias
  • Racine's ambition may excuse, but cannot justify an injurious act; a breach between the friends was inevitable Boileau remained now, as ever, loyal--loyal for warning as well as for encouragement. —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
  • "Is it not, Paul I don't doubt Father Laxabon is right," said Dessalines; "only I do not see the use of having a king, if people are turned out of house and home for being loyal--as we all are. —  The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance
 

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  1. French, from Old French leial, loial, from Latin lēgālis, legal, from lēx, lēg-, law; see leg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French loyal, Old French loial (also leial, leal, later English leal) = Spanish Portuguese leal = Italian leale, faithful, loyal (Spanish Portuguese legal = Italian legale, legal), from Latin legalis, pertaining to law: see legal, of which loyal (with leal) is a doublet. Cf. royal, real, regal, similarly related.
 

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