Fealty

['fiːəltɪ]

Definition

(n.) 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.

(n.) Fidelity; constancy; faithfulness, as of a friend to a friend, or of a wife to her husband.

Typist: Louis

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Fidelity, loyalty, allegiance, homage, obeisance.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

[See FIDELITY]

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Definition

n. the vassal's oath of fidelity to his feudal lord: loyalty.

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