Synonyms for fealty
ˈfi əl tifeal·ty

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1. fealty

   Allegiance is the obligation of fidelity and obedience that an individual owes to his government or sovereign, in return for the protection he receives. The feudal uses of these words have mostly passed away with the state of society that gave them birth; but their origin still colors their present meaning. A patriotic American feels an enthusiastic loyalty to the republic; he takes, on occasion, an oath of allegiance to the government, but his loyalty will lead him to do more than mere allegiance could demand; he pays homage to God alone, as the only king and lord, or to those principles of right that are spiritually supreme; he acknowledges the duty of obedience to all rightful authority; he resents the idea of subjection. Fealty is becoming somewhat rare, except in elevated or poetic style. We prefer to speak of the faithfulness rather than the fealty of citizen, wife, or friend.

   Synonyms:
   allegiance, devotion, faithfulness, homage, loyalty, obedience, subjection

   Antonyms:
   disaffection, disloyalty, rebellion, sedition, treason

   Preposition:
   We honor the allegiance of the citizen to the government; the government has a right to allegiance from the citizen.

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1. allegiance, fealtynoun

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

   Synonyms:
   commitment, dedication, allegiance, loyalty

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1. • Loyalty

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1. fealtynoun

   Synonyms:
   fidelity, loyalty, allegiance, homage, obeisance

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1. List of paraphrases for "fealty":

   fidelity, allegiance, faithfulness, loyalty, repeatability

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How to use fealty in a sentence?

1. Charles Krauthammer:

   When democrats complain about not taking stands you go back to Ruth Bader Ginsberg who made it a principle of her nominating process that she would not in any way telegraph where she would stand on anything, ever since the Bork nomination and the fiasco of the attacks on him it’s understood your job up there is to dance, to express a fealty to the constitution. You will say you will be independent and that's it and he did that beautifully.

2. Larry Hogan:

   It just bothers me that you have to swear fealty to the dear leader or you get kicked out of the party.

3. Chuck Schumer:

   Out of fear or fealty to Donald Trump, the Republican minority just prevented the American people from getting the full truth about January 6.

4. Steve Balch:

   My quarrel isn’t with people who think diversity, equity and inclusion are good things, my argument and the argument of the NAS is turning them into dogma and then using them to vet faculty members, graduate students, undergraduate students – creating aversive environment in which you feel you have to swear fealty to a particular creed. I think that’s wrong.