fealty

Example Sentences

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Soldiers fight, Chesterton says, because their cause is bound up with their affections for their family and fealty to their God.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

All of them were there to demonstrate their fealty to the man who would be king.

From Salon • Nov. 23, 2025

For decades these animals – lions, tigers, pumas, cheetahs and jaguars – have been a sign of power, status and even political fealty in the country.

From BBC • Jul. 22, 2025

Back in Germany, though, the rise of the Nazis is what sets Bonhoeffer on his Christian resistance path, disturbed by the country’s sudden fealty to a false god stoking “rumor and rage.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2024

Those who had changed their allegiance during the battle needed only to swear fealty to Joffrey, but the ones who had fought for Stannis until the bitter end were compelled to speak.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin