Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The fidelity owed by a vassal to his feudal lord.
- noun The oath of such fidelity.
- noun Allegiance. synonym: fidelity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Fidelity. to a lord; faithful adherence of a tenant or vassal to the superior of whom he holds his lands; the solemn recognition by the tenant, under oath, of his lord's paramount right.
- noun Fidelity in general, as of one friend to another, of a wife to a husband, etc.; faithfulness; faith; loyalty.
- noun Synonyms Allegiance. Loyalty, Fealty. See
allegiance .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior power, or to a government; loyality. It is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation.
- noun Fidelity; constancy; faithfulness, as of a friend to a friend, or of a wife to her husband.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun 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 . - noun The oath by which this obligation was assumed.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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They do so not out some long term fealty to fiscal discipline, but largely because they never valued these conservation programs to begin with.
Jamie Rappaport Clark: This Halloween Could Mean Scary Cuts to Wildlife Conservation Programs Jamie Rappaport Clark 2011
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The heavy handed, violence boys take the reigns of a nuclear weapon equipped Middle Eastern country and President Obama bows in fealty?
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They have demonstrated that they are willing to hold public safety in fealty to their imperatives, and the public hostage to their collective arrogance.
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Why should I pay through the nose in fealty to an obsolete business model?
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The filthy collarless girls approached me warily, squatting to urinate in fealty as they belly-crawled along the gravel driveway. awesome sentence.
Waldo Jaquith - Two Jack Russells need a home. Take them? Pretty please? With sugar on top? 2006
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The filthy collarless girls approached me warily, squatting to urinate in fealty as they belly-crawled along the gravel driveway.
Waldo Jaquith - Two Jack Russells need a home. Take them? Pretty please? With sugar on top? 2006
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What's more, their pious fealty is rewarded tangibly in the form of a paycheck.
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No one exceeds him and our members in fealty to our sovereign lady, the Queen: The Empire Club is distinctively Canadian and in serving.
Royal Visit Dinner 1965
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I joined the Club because from the bottom of my heart I loved the Empire, (Hear, hear) and I love every association and tie which binds Canada in fealty to the beloved Motherland.
Fascism 1934
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They do so not out some long term fealty to fiscal discipline, but largely because they never valued these conservation programs to begin with.
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brtom commented on the word fealty
Man disobeying,
Disloyal breaks his fealtie, and sinns
Against the high Supremacie of Heav'n ...
Milton, Paradise Lost III
December 18, 2006
dailyword commented on the word fealty
Pippin swore this to Denethor when he became a knight of Gondor.
June 9, 2012