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   fealty , n. [OE. feaute, OF. feauté, fealté, feelté, feelteit, fr. L. fidelitas, fr. fidelis faithful. See Feal, and cf. Fidelity.]
   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; loyalty.  It is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation.
   Wharton (Law Dict.).  Tomlins.
   
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   Fidelity; constancy; faithfulness, as of a friend to a friend, or of a wife to her husband.
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   He should maintain fealty to God.
   I. Taylor.
   
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   Makes wicked lightnings of her eyes, and saps
   The fealty of our friends.
   tennyson.
   
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   Swore fealty to the new government.
   Macaulay.
   
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   ☞ Fealty is distinguished from homage, which is an acknowledgment of tenure, while fealty implies an oath. See Homage.
   Wharton.
   Syn. -- Homage; loyality; fidelity; constancy.
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