different between betraying vs disloyal

English

Etymology

betray +? -ing

Verb

betraying

1. present participle of betray

Noun

betraying (plural betrayings)

1. betrayal

   • Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]

English

Etymology

Middle English, from Anglo-Norman desleal, desloial

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [d?s?l??(j)??]

Adjective

disloyal (comparative more disloyal, superlative most disloyal)

1. Not loyal, without loyalty.
   • 1536, Anne Boleyn, letter addressed to Henry VIII from the Tower of London, cited in Edward Herbert, The Life and Raigne of King Henry VIII, London: Thomas Whitaker, 1649, p. 383,^[1]

     Good your Grace, let not any light fancy, or bad Counsel of mine enemies withdraw your Princely favour from me; neither let that stain, that unworthy stain of a disloyall heart towards your good Grace, ever cast so foul a blot on your most dutifull Wife, and the Infant Princesse your daughter […]

   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act I, Scene 2,^[2]

     […] Norway himself,

     With terrible numbers,

     Assisted by that most disloyal traitor

     The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict;

   • 1923, Willa Cather, One of Ours, Book One, Chapter 15,^[3]

     He told his mother he was glad to be back again. He sometimes felt as if it were disloyal to her for him to be so happy with Mrs. Erlich.

   • 1998, William Maynard Hutchins (translator), “My Donkey and Hypocrisy” by Tawfiq al-Hakim, in In the Tavern of Life and Other Stories, Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, p. 65,^[4]

     Embarrassed about leaving him, I asked him to accompany me. It would have been disloyal to let him broil in the heat of Cairo, while I went off to a summer resort.

Synonyms

• faithless
• perfidious
• treacherous
• unfaithful
• unloyal

Derived terms

• disloyally

Related terms

• disloyalty
• loyal

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