What does fealty mean?
Definitions for fealty
ˈfi əl tifeal·ty
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Princeton's WordNet
allegiance, fealtynoun
the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign)
Wiktionary
fealtynoun
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.
fealtynoun
The oath by which this obligation was assumed.
Etymology: From fealté, from fidelitas
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Fealtynoun
Duty due to a superior lord; fidelity to a master; loyalty.
Etymology: feaultè, French.
I am in parliament pledge for his truth,
And lasting fealty to the new-made king. William Shakespeare, Rich. III.Let my sovereign
Command my eldest son, nay all my sons,
As pledges of my fealty and love. William Shakespeare, Henry IV. p. ii.Man disobeying,
Disloyal, breaks his fealty, and sins
Against the high supremacy of heav’n. John Milton, Par. Lost.Each bird and beast hehold
After their kinds: I bring them to receive
From thee their names, and pay thee fealty
With low subjection. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. viii.Whether his first design be to withdraw
Our fealty from God, or to disturb
Conjugal love. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. ix.
Wikipedia
Fealty
An oath of fealty, from the Latin fidelitas (faithfulness), is a pledge of allegiance of one person to another.
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fealty
Fealty is a formal acknowledgment of loyalty and duty that a vassal, knight, servant, or subordinate owes to a lord or superior in feudal times. It involves a pledge of allegiance and is often sealed through oaths or codes of conduct. It may also refer to the fidelity or loyalty that someone owes to a government, ruler, or cause in a broader and more modern context.
Webster Dictionary
Fealtynoun
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
Fealtynoun
fidelity; constancy; faithfulness, as of a friend to a friend, or of a wife to her husband
Wikidata
Fealty
An oath of fealty, from the Latin fidelitas, 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, often contained within an altar, thus binding the oath-taker before God. Fealty and homage are a key element of feudalism.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Fealty
fē′al-ti, or fēl′ti, n. the vassal's oath of fidelity to his feudal lord: loyalty. [O. Fr. fealte—L. fidelitat-em—fidelis, faithful—fidĕre, to trust.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
fealty
Loyalty and due devotion to the queen's service.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of fealty in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of fealty in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of fealty in a Sentence
When democrats complain about not taking stands you go back to Ruth Bader Ginsberg who made it a principle of her nominating process that she would not in any way telegraph where she would stand on anything, ever since the Bork nomination and the fiasco of the attacks on him it’s understood your job up there is to dance, to express a fealty to the constitution. You will say you will be independent and that's it and he did that beautifully.
Out of fear or fealty to Donald Trump, the Republican minority just prevented the American people from getting the full truth about January 6.
My quarrel isn’t with people who think diversity, equity and inclusion are good things, my argument and the argument of the NAS is turning them into dogma and then using them to vet faculty members, graduate students, undergraduate students – creating aversive environment in which you feel you have to swear fealty to a particular creed. I think that’s wrong.
It just bothers me that you have to swear fealty to the dear leader or you get kicked out of the party.
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