fealty

n.	1.	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.
	2.	Fidelity; constancy; faithfulness, as of a friend to a friend, or of a wife to her husband. He should maintain fealty to God. - I. Taylor. Makes wicked lightnings of her eyes, and saps The fealty of our friends. - tennyson. Swore fealty to the new government. - Macaulay.

Noun

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fealty - the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign) Synonyms: allegiance

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