Fealty Definition

fēəl-tē
noun
The duty and loyalty owed by a vassal or tenant to his feudal lord.
Webster's New World
An oath of such loyalty.
Webster's New World
Loyalty; fidelity.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Fealty

  • Middle English fealtye from Old French fealte from Latin fidēlitās faithfulness from fidēlis faithful from fidēs faith bheidh- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Anglo-Norman fealté, from Latin fidēlitās (“faithfulness”)

    From Wiktionary

Fealty Sentence Examples

  • The Moslem inhabitants are mainly of Turkoman origin, and used to owe fealty to chieftains of the family of Chapan Oglu, whose headquarters were at Yuzgat in Cappadocia.

  • By May the Douglases brought Albany from France to England, where he swore fealty to Edward, and was to be given the Scottish crown.

  • More surprisingly, he managed to persuade the Norman nobility to swear fealty to the boy.

  • Before his coronation he had renounced the right, so jealously guarded by Henry V., of assisting in the election of bishops and abbots, and he even undertook to refrain from exacting homage from the prelates and to content himself with fealty.

  • His kinsman William Heron, of Ford, did fealty at the same time.

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