FEALTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fealty mean? 

• FEALTY (noun)
  The noun FEALTY has 1 sense:

1. the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign)

  Familiarity information: FEALTY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEALTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

allegiance; fealty

Hypernyms ("fealty" is a kind of...):

loyalty; trueness (the quality of being loyal)

 Context examples 

So he rendered fealty in the new way, by running with the master's horse.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But your devoir—your oath of fealty?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the Northland he had evidenced his fealty by toiling in the harness; but there were no sleds in the Southland, nor did dogs pack burdens on their backs.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The team dispersed in ignominious defeat, and it was not until after dark that the dogs came sneaking back, one by one, by meekness and humility signifying their fealty to White Fang.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

In acknowledgment of fealty, he proceeded to take upon himself the guardianship of his master's property.

(White Fang, by Jack London)