Middle English Dictionary Entry
loialtẹ̄ n.
Entry Info
| Forms | loialtẹ̄ n. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. leaute.
1.
Loyalty.
Associated quotations
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)6783 : My moder, Ypocrysie..flemed hym Seynt Amour; The noble dide such labour To susteyne evere the loyalte, That he to moche agilte me.
- a1500 Moste glorious lord (Voss Germ.Gall.Q.9)94 : Floure fayrest of beute, That for no Tempest neuer do synne, Grownd of most very loyeallte, Vn-to the I me Compleyn.