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fealty::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | allegiance |
| Type of | loyalty, trueness |
Examples of fealty
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Other stretches belonged to semi-independent kingdoms that paid fealty to Lhasa.
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The crowd, rowdy and at times ecstatic, answered al-Sadr with chants of fealty.
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What's more, their pious fealty is rewarded tangibly in the form of a paycheck.
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Romney was clumsily trying to pledge fealty to the interests of the middle class.
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They have scrambled over the top of each other to declare their fealty to coal.
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He claimed that he needed to talk to Stephen before switching his oath of fealty.
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In return, the barons renewed their oaths of fealty to King John on 19 June 1215.
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Voting has become more a matter of consumer choice than of ideological fealty.
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Both sides showed fealty to the historical ideal by writing under Roman pen names.
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- Allegiance: the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign)
- An oath of fealty, from the Latin fidelitas (faithfulness), is a pledge of allegiance of one person to another. Typically the oath is made upon a religious object such as a Bible or saint's relic, thus binding the oath-taker before God.
- Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; fidelity; allegiance; faithfulness; The oath by which this obligation was assumed
- Obligation of fidelity in a military, political and social sense on the part of a feudal tenant or vassal to his lord. The contract is not to be confused with homage, though both ceremonies were conducted at the same time. ...
- An oath of allegiance paid by a knight to his lord or by a lower person to his knight. Sometimes this fealty was in the form of money or possessions. Often it was in the form of an oath to serve, protect and defend.
- [Medieval] loyalty or fidelity owed to a feudal lord by his tenant. Originating in the Carolingian capitularies, it is essentially an oath promising service and fidelity (loyalty) to one's lord or king.
- Oath by which a vassal swore loyalty to his lord, usually on a Relic of Saints or on The Bible.
- A reciprocal oath pledged between two people in which each swears a form of loyalty and service to the other.
- Fealty is a tenant's or vassal's fidelity, loyalty and allegiance to a lord.
