Definition of fealties Fealties
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What does fealties mean?
Part of speech
🔤- fealties, noun, plural of fealty.
WordNet
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| fealty - the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign) | ||
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| loyalty, trueness the quality of being loyal | ||
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Wiktionary 
- fealty (Noun)
Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; fidelity; allegiance; faithfulness. - fealty (Noun)
The oath by which this obligation was assumed.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- fealty (n.)
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. - fealty (n.)
Fidelity; constancy; faithfulness, as of a friend to a friend, or of a wife to her husband.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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fealty
fē′al-ti, or fēl′ti, n. the vassal's oath of fidelity to his feudal lord: loyalty. [O. Fr. fealte—L. fidelitat-em—fidelis, faithful—fidĕre, to trust.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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fealty
Loyalty and due devotion to the queen's service.
Part of speech
🔤- fealty, noun, singular of fealties.
