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

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

Notably, when pressed on fealty to the current state of Israel, he refused to accept anything short of a state “with equal rights for all.”

From Slate • Jun. 25, 2025

“Cobra Kai” refused to die not out of fealty to the namesake dojo’s motto, but as a business matter.

From Salon • Feb. 13, 2025

"I remind you, the Paynes are bannermen to House Lannister. I thought it best to choose men who owed Lord Tywin no fealty."

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin