fealty
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That fealty was enough for Trump to nominate Blanche to the position permanently.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
It did not explicitly invoke the unitary executive theory, but its fealty to the doctrine was clear.
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2026
This fealty to a handful of characters would continue throughout his career, but the result is that the whole of his output feels dull in comparison to his individual works.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
Is it Gloria Swanson’s Norma Desmond, the obscenely wealthy-but-faded star obsessed with comebacks and raining contempt on anyone who doesn’t approach her with abject fealty and admiration?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2025
He yelled, and she dismounted from his head and dipped her nose to his hand in fealty.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
A Scorpio’s deepest fealties can only lie with beings they perceive as powerful as they are — or more so, complementing that inescapable desire to subjugate that which makes them feel powerless.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2024
My passions are many, my loves more, my thoughts loyalty, and my fancy faith: all devoted in humble devoir to the service of Phœbe; and shall I reap no reward for such fealties?
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury
And also, the fees, fealties, and seruices which belonged to him in the countie of Amund, and in the vallie called Vale Dosta; and in like maner, the towne of Castellone.
From Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second by Raphael Holinshed
Feudalism itself, with its curious net-work of fealties and obligations running through the fabric of society in every direction, was by no means purely disintegrative in its tendencies.
From American Political Ideas Viewed from the Standpoint of Universal History by John Fiske
The doors were shut, with the infant inside; the lights flew up; glasses clinked, merry healths were pledged, new fealties sworn by look alone.
From V. V.'s Eyes by Henry Sydnor Harrison
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