disloyalty

[O. Fr. desloialté, deslealté; Fr. déloyauté; Sp. deslealtad; Ital. dislealtà; Port. deslealdade.] 1. Want of loyalty in allegiance; a breach of fidelity to a sovereign. "Let the truth of that religion I profe be represented to judgment, not in the disguises of levity, schism, heresy, novelty and disloyalty ." -King Charles: Eikon Basilike . 2. A want of constancy or fidelity in love. "There shall appear such seeming truths of Hero's disloyalty, that jealousy shall be called a urance." Shakesp.: Much Ado about Nothing , ii. 2. For the difference between disloyalty and dis affection , see DISAFFECTION. *dis-lus-ter, v . t . [Pref. dis , and Eng. luster (q. v.).] To deprive of luster, to dull. "All those glittering pa ions get their luster in the absence of that intellectual light, which, as soon as it appears, deads and dis lusters them."-Mountagu: Devout E ays, pt. ii., tr. vi., § 3. dis-mā 11, *dis-mā'yl, v. t. [Pref. dis, and Eng. mail (q. v.).] To deprive of or cut off the plates of mail. "Their mighty stroakes their haberions dismayled." Spenser: F. Q., II. vi. 29.