leal adjective & adverb. [li:l] Now Scot. & north. or literary. ME.
[Anglo-Norman leal, Old French leel: see LOYAL.]
A. adjective.
1. Loyal, faithful, honest. ME.
■ R. Graves Now you vow to be leal and true.

2. True, genuine; real, actual; exact, accurate. ME.
■ J. Louthian The said Witnesses to bear leal and soothfast Witnessing.

3. Lawful; just, fair. LME.

Comb.:
leal-hearted adjective loyal, faithful, honest.
b. adverb.
1. Loyally, faithfully. ME.

2. Truly, exactly, accurately; perfectly, thoroughly. LME.

■ leally adverb loyally, faithfully, truly ME.

■ lealty noun (arch.) faithfulness, loyalty M19.

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