disloyalty

  • 111Fukei jiken —    The celebrated disloyalty incident of 1891 in which the patriotic protestant Christian teacher Uchimura, Kanzo initially refused to bow to the new Imperial Rescript on Education (kyoiku chokugo) installed in his school. When the story was… …

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  • 112mutiny — I noun defiance, disloyalty, disobedience, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, motus, opposition, oppugnancy, outbreak, rebellion, refusal to comply, resistance, revolt, revolution, seditio, sedition, subversion, treason,… …

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  • 113fidelity insurance — n: insurance against loss caused by the dishonesty or nonperformance of an employee of the insured Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. fidelity insurance …

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  • 114infidelity — I noun abandonment of allegiance, apostasy, bad faith, betrayal, betrayal of oath, betrayal of trust, breach of faith, breach of promise, breach of trust, broken faith, broken word, cuckoldry, deceitfulness, defection, desertion, disaffection,… …

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  • 115betrayal — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. treason, treachery, disloyalty; see deception 1 , dishonesty . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. treachery, disloyalty, breech of faith, double crossing, duplicity, treason, *Judas kiss, perfidy. ANT.: faithfulness, loyalty… …

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  • 116faithlessness — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Disloyalty] Syn. perfidy, fraud, treachery; see dishonesty , treason . 2. [Doubt] Syn. skepticism, disbelief, agnosticism; see doubt 1 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Betrayal, especially of a moral obligation: disloyalty,… …

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  • 117loyalty — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. allegiance, faithfulness, fidelity, devotion, constancy, fealty, homage, trustworthiness, integrity, attachment, trueness, sincerity, steadfastness, adherence, staunchness, stalwartness, Dependability, devotedness, support …

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  • 118perfidy — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. deceit, falseness, disloyalty; see dishonesty . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. Betrayal, especially of a moral obligation: disloyalty, faithlessness, false heartedness, falseness, falsity, infidelity, perfidiousness,… …

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  • 119Preobrazhenskiy Prikaz —    Tsar Petr the Great created the Preobrazhenskiy prikaz [Preobrazhenskiy Office] in 1699 as a secret chancery to prosecute treason and disloyalty. The tsar was concerned about opposition to his modernization policies, which were seen as… …

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  • 120fidelity — noun 1) fidelity to her husband Syn: faithfulness, loyalty, constancy; trueheartedness, trustworthiness, dependability, reliability; formal troth Ant: infidelity, disloyalty 2) fidelity to your king Syn …

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