LOYALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does loyally mean? 

• LOYALLY (adverb)
  The adverb LOYALLY has 1 sense:

1. with loyalty; in a loyal manner

  Familiarity information: LOYALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOYALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With loyalty; in a loyal manner

Context example:

government will not be efficient unless the people as a whole accept leadership loyally and enthusiastically

Antonym:

disloyally (without loyalty; in a disloyal manner)

Pertainym:

loyal (steadfast in allegiance or duty)

 Context examples 

For two days after this I stayed at home, and my wife appeared to abide loyally by our engagement, for, as far as I know, she never stirred out of the house.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So the toast was drunk, the pledge made and loyally kept in spite of many temptations, for with instinctive wisdom, the girls seized a happy moment to do their friend a service, for which he thanked them all his life.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)