fealty
pronunciation
How to pronounce fealty in British English:
UK [ˈfi:əlti]
How to pronounce fealty in American English:
US [ˈfiəlti]
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- Noun:
- the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign)
Word Origin
- fealty
- fealty: see faith
- fealty (n.)
- c. 1300, feaute, from Old French feauté, earlier fealte, "loyalty, fidelity; homage sworn by a vassal to his overlord; faithfulness," from Latin fidelitatem (nominative fidelitas) "faithfulness, fidelity," from fidelis "loyal, faithful" (see fidelity).
Synonym
Example
- 1. No one of his stature can now gently counter hizbullah 's claim to represent all lebanese shias or question its fealty to iran .
- 2. She remains a close friend of freud and elisabeth , who didn 't begrudge her rise in the company and appreciated her fealty to the murdoch family .
- 3. Landman , 54 , is in malema 's parlance a boer , though he prefers afrikaner , the name that south africa 's dutch settlers gave themselves to show fealty to the african land they came to love .
- 4. And when mr ahmadinejad tried to repeat the unprecedented show of fealty he performed at the last such ceremony in 2005 by kissing mr khamenei 's hand , this time the supreme leader flinched , prompting a clumsy kiss of his shoulder instead .
- 5. State television repeatedly broadcast images of senior military leaders pledging their fealty to the son .