[f. LOYAL a. + -NESS.] The state or condition of being loyal; loyalty.
1592. Stow, Ann. (an. 1566), 1125. The Queenes maiestie … was of all the students … so honorably and ioyfully receiued, as … their loialnes towards the Queenes maiestie … did require.
1642. Rogers, Naaman, 380. Loyalnesse and love.
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Loyalness, loyalty.
