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Meaning of "fealty" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FEALTY

From Old French fealte, from Latin fidēlitāsfidelity.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF FEALTY

fealty  [ˈfiːəltɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FEALTY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Fealty is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FEALTY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

fealty

Fealty

An oath of fealty, from the Latin fidelitas, is a pledge of allegiance of one person to another.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FEALTY


admiralty
ˈædmərəltɪ
anticruelty
ˌæntɪˈkruːəltɪ
casualty
ˈkæʒjʊəltɪ
commonalty
ˈkɒmənəltɪ
cruelty
ˈkruːəltɪ
difficulty
ˈdɪfɪkəltɪ
disloyalty
dɪsˈlɔɪəltɪ
faculty
ˈfækəltɪ
lealty
ˈliːəltɪ
loyalty
ˈlɔɪəltɪ
mayoralty
ˈmɛərəltɪ
novelty
ˈnɒvəltɪ
penalty
ˈpɛnəltɪ
personalty
ˈpɜːsənəltɪ
realty
ˈrɪəltɪ
royalty
ˈrɔɪəltɪ
specialty
ˈspɛʃəltɪ
subtlety
ˈsʌtəltɪ
vice-admiralty
ˌvaɪsˈædmərəltɪ
viceroyalty
ˌvaɪsˈrɔɪəltɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FEALTY

feague
feal
fealties
fear
feare
fearer
fearful
fearfully
fearfulness
fearless
fearlessly
fearlessness
fearmonger
fearnaught
fearnought
fearsome
fearsomely
fearsomeness
feasance
fease

WORDS THAT END LIKE FEALTY

brand loyalty
death penalty
ephoralty
malty
mesnalty
officialty
salty
seignioralty
severalty
sheriffalty
shrievalty
spiritualty
temporalty
the death penalty
walty

Synonyms and antonyms of fealty in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FEALTY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «fealty» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of fealty

Translation of «fealty» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FEALTY

Find out the translation of fealty to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fealty from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fealty» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

效忠
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

lealtad
570 millions of speakers

English

fealty
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

fealty
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الولاء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

верность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fidelidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আনুগত্যের
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fidélité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Fealty
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Gefolgschaft
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

忠誠
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

충성
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Fealty
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lời thề trung thành
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விசுவாசத்தை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

धैर्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sadakat
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fedeltà
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wierność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вірність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fidelitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τον όρκο υποτέλειας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

getrouheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fealty
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

troskap
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fealty

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FEALTY»

The term «fealty» is normally little used and occupies the 109.150 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FEALTY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «fealty» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «fealty» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fealty

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FEALTY»

Discover the use of fealty in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fealty and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Oath of Fealty: Feudal Europe at War
With new troop types, historical backgrounds and accompanying maps and artwork, Oath of Fealty allows Field of Glory generals to take up arms in defence of honour, faith and liege lord.
Richard Bodley Scott, 2009
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Oath of Fealty
In the near future, Los Angeles is an all but uninhabitable war zone, racked by crime, violence, pollution and poverty.
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, 2007
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Oath of Fealty
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Elizabeth Moon's Kings of the North. For the first time in nearly twenty years, Elizabeth Moon returns to the thrilling realm of her superb Deed of Paksenarrion trilogy.
Elizabeth Moon, 2010
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I Swear to You, Adolf Hitler, Fealty and Obedience: Sin and ...
In forever memory of my brother, Andre, who had been drafted against his will into Hitler's Waffen-SS. Attempting to runaway, he was caught and sent to a punishment Gebirgsjger company.
Adalbert Lallier, 2013
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Littleton's Tenures: With Notes Explanatory of the Text of ...
FEALTY. Sect. XCI. Fealty defined — How it shall be done. — Fealty is the same that fidelitas is in Latin. And when a freeholder doth fealty to his lord, he shall hold his right hand upon a book, and shall say thus : " Know ye this, my lord, that I  ...
Sir Thomas Littleton, 1846
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Law and Revolution, the Formation of the Western Legal Tradition
Harold J. Berman. The phrase "contractual reciprocity" is subject to a qualification : the feudal contract (whether of homage or of fealty without homage) was a contract to enter into a status. In that sense it was like a marriage contract, to which in ...
Harold J. Berman, 2009
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A Treatise on Copyhold, Customary Freehold, and Ancient ...
An infant, though he might have performed homage, cannot do fealty, it should seem, as that is only to be done upon oath(/); and as no man can swear by attorney, fealty must necessarily be done in person (g). The lord in his own person could ...
John Scriven (serjeant at law.), Henry Stalman, 1846
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The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist,: A Quarterly ...
Rouland were held of the King as of his sa Honor of Tutbury in Socage by fealty only and were worth above reprizas 208. That the Manor of Calver and the mines Lott Cope office of Barmaster with the Dish and Barmote C ourt was held by ...
Llewellyn Frederick William Jewitt, John Charles Cox, John Romilly Allen, 1868
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The Law Library
So that, perhaps at this day, fealty, heriots, and suit of court, are the only services which can belong to socage tenure : the effect of the statute being not only to abolish all the other incidents of this tenure which then existed, but also to prevent ...
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The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Or, ...
13. tenant for years is not compellable to do fealty ; but Littleton, Sect. 132. is expressly with lord Coke. See too the other authorities cited in the margin, and an observation on the 10 H. 6. 13. in Kitch. on Courts, ed. 1592. fol. 132. a. [68. a.] ...
Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, 1812

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FEALTY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fealty is used in the context of the following news items.
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Democratic Support for Israel Is Withering Rapidly
In the short-term, the role of pro-Israel campaign donations will likely ensure the fealty of Democratic candidates seeking higher office. However ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
2
Defying Time and Space
Back in El Copey, though, people still show their fealty for a native son by wearing the cap of his latest team. Long gone are the blue and red of ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
3
Daesh: It's not an Organization, It's a State
Organizations in Libya, Sinai, Nigeria, Mali, Somalia, Algeria, Mauritania, Tunisia, Yemen and Afghanistan have sworn their fealty to Islamic ... «Arutz Sheva, Jul 15»
4
SARGE: The Sharpened Tip Of The Spear
Public service is accomplished from a position of fealty and subservience to those they serve and not the position of the nobility positioning ... «The Hayride, Jul 15»
5
Disillusioned with Game of Thrones and True Detective? Try Penny …
Over the past 10 weeks, perhaps the greatest casualty of this undiscriminating fealty to Game of Thrones (and now to a lesser degree True ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
6
Isis in Syria: Influential tribal leaders hold secret talks with Western …
These leaders wield enormous influence and command the fealty of hundreds of thousands of Syrians through the extended clan system. «The Independent, Jul 15»
7
When Did Going to Church Become Taboo?
... while society demands that, say, our presidential candidates maintain a religious affiliation, elsewhere such fealty is increasingly stigmatized. «MarieClaire.com, Jul 15»
8
If the GOP Wants To Attract Young People, Maybe It Should Stop …
... pat “colorblind” bromides in addressing America's racial inequities and to wean itself from its long-standing fealty to the national incarceration ... «In These Times, Jul 15»
9
Editorial: Unnecessary deaths
That's Japan and this is America, of course, where our fealty to the Second Amendment would never allow such intrusive government oversight. «Houston Chronicle, Jul 15»
10
How Progressives Are Playing John Roberts
That achievement owes fealty to both rationality and sacredness, both Athens and Jerusalem.” Conservatives need to realize that “substantive ... «The Federalist, Jul 15»

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