{
  "id": "loyalty.kept",
  "term": "loyalty",
  "sense": "kept",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 17,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "Keeping one's own walls where a group one belongs to sets them, when setting them in another place would make its own reach wider.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "belonging.member",
      "keep.maintenance",
      "set.fix",
      "wall.range-end",
      "groups.collection",
      "wide.spatial",
      "reach.action",
      "make.verb",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "Belonging makes a group's walls read as one's own; loyalty is that reading holding when it costs something, when the member could reach further by setting its walls where the group does not.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "membership that holds at a cost",
      "reach given up to keep a wall shared"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "belonging.member",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "belonging is being inside; loyalty is staying inside when leaving would pay"
    },
    {
      "id": "yes-men.filtered",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "yes-men keep the power's model unchanged; loyalty keeps the walls, not necessarily the model"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "political-party.power"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "disloyal",
    "disloyalty",
    "loyal",
    "loyalties",
    "loyalty"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-loyalty.kept"
}